Thanks Hector & Tracy for this…

August 29th, 2007 Posted in Misc.

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 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 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.

  1. 3 Responses to “Thanks Hector & Tracy for this…”

  2. By Hector on Aug 29, 2007

    I was actually thinking of posting that too, glad you did. Tracy sen that to me and it made me smile. We often forget to forget and remember the things that cause us pain. All to often it takes months, even years to learn how to write things in the sand, and then sometimes it to late. God (or something) gave me the strength to learn how to do it and my life is all the better for it, its by far the path less traveled.

    Robert Frost put it best when he said;

    “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

    And, this thing called life…well, Axel Rose said it best…”WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE”

  3. By La on Aug 29, 2007

    Nice story…do you continue to write in the sand over and over again for continued hurts? Just pondering?
    My new motto: Breath in, Breath out, Move on…

  4. By Hector on Aug 31, 2007

    good food for thought….. But I would say Definately not. that would be like writing checks out in pencil…nothing says you can’t but its not a wise decision. some thing MUST be in ink, or etched in stone, so long as those etchings strenthen you and not change who we are…

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