My best friend

in writing •  7 years ago 

An Arab legend tells that two friends traveled through a desert and argued bitterly, one of them slapped the other, this one, offended, wrote in the sand: "Today my best friend slapped me." They continued their journey and came to an oasis, where they resolved to bathe. The one who had been slapped was drowning, and the other came to his rescue. When he recovered, he took a chisel and wrote on a stone: "Today my best friend saved my life." Intrigued, he asked:

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Why, after I hurt you, do you write in the sand, and now you write on a stone?
When a great friend offends us too much, we must write it in the sand, where the wind of oblivion and forgiveness will erase it. When something great happens to us, we must engrave it in the stone of the heart, from where no wind can make it disappear.

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Wise words of wisdom.

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