Friends in the Desert

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 marsh 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 the 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."

It’s very easy for us to get angry and upset when people say or do things to hurt us. A grudge is one of the hardest things to let go of, but it’s also one of the most important. Like the famous quote goes, “For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.” Most people aren’t inherently malicious and a lot of times the hurting wasn’t intended at all. Instead, hold on to and appreciate all the good that’s done to you!