Sand Or Stone


                                 Author Unknown



               A story was told of  two friends walking through the desert.
          During some point  of the journey they  had an argument, and  one
          friend  slapped the  other one  in  the face.   The  one  who got
          slapped was hurt, but without  saying anything, wrote in the sand
          in large capital letters, "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE
          FACE."

               They kept on  walking until they found an  oasis, where they
          decided to take a  bath.  The one who had been  slapped got stuck
          in the mire and started to sink  but the friend saved him.  After
          he recovered  from the  near drowning,  he wrote  on  a stone  in
          equally large  capital letters,  "TODAY MY  BEST FRIEND  SAVED MY
          LIFE."

               The friend who  had slapped and saved his  best friend asked
          him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand  and now, you write
          on a stone.  Why?"

               The other  friend replied, "When someone hurts  us we should
          write it down  in sand where  winds of forgiveness can  erase it.
          When  someone does something good  for us, we  must engrave it in
          stone where no wind can ever erase it."

          * LEARN  TO  WRITE YOUR  HURTS  IN THE  SAND  AND TO  CARVE  YOUR
          BENEFITS IN STONE. *

          They say it takes a minute to find a special person,
          an hour to appreciate them,
          a day to love them,
          but an entire life to forget them.

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