Writing in sand and engraving on sand

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- This story tells 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: 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: 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 away. 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 sand, and to carve your benefits in stone.