This is a short and poignant story about two friends walking through the desert. At one point during their journey, they had a heated argument, and one of them slapped the other across the face.
The one who was slapped felt intense pain and sadness, but without saying a word, he wrote in the sand:
"Today my best friend slapped me in the face."
They continued walking until they reached a beautiful oasis.
They decided to bathe in the oasis lake, but the young man who had been slapped earlier got stuck in a muddy swamp and began to drown.
His friend rushed to his aid and rescued him. At that moment, the young man, who had nearly drowned, wrote the following sentence on a large rock:
"Today my best friend saved my life."
Then the friend who had slapped him and saved him asked:
"After I hurt you, you wrote on the sand, and now you're writing on stone. Why is that?"
The young man replied:
"When someone hurts us, we should write their offense on the sand so that the winds of forgetfulness may erase it. But when someone does us a favor, we must carve it on stone so that we never forget it and the wind can never erase it."
The moral of this short story:
Be forgiving, and don't forget those who have done you a favor. Don't value your possessions, but rather the people around you.
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