Sand and Stone

Two friends were walking through the desert.
At some point in 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 bath.

The one who had been slapped, got stuck in the mire
and began to drown, 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 the other, "After I slapped 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 the 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 could ever erase it."

Learn to write your hurts in the sand, and to carve your blessings
in stone. It is said it takes a minute to find a special person,
an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them, but an entire
lifetime to forget them.