Sand and Stone 


  
TWO    FRIENDS    WERE    WALKING 
THROUGH    THE    
Beach.
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     BATH
 

THE    ONE     WHO    HAD    BEEN
 
SLAPPED     GOT    STUCK    IN    THE
 
MIRE !    AND    STARTED    DROWNING,
 
BUT    THE    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    I T    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.

DO    NOT     VALUE    THE    THINGS
YOU  HAVE    IN    YOUR    LIFE,     BUT    VALUE
 
WHO
  YOU  HAVE    IN     YOUR    LIFE !