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View More Teen WritingSand & Stone
By Unknown
Two friends were 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:
Today my best friend slapped me in the face.
They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where
they decided to take a swim. The one who had been
slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but
his friend saved him.
After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on
a stone:
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 friend replied, “When someone hurts
us, we should write it down in sand where
winds of forgiveness can erase it away.
But, 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 then an entire life to forget them.