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FRIENDSHIP
5.6 Friendship
Sand and 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?"
Two friends were walking through the desert. During the journgy, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other on the face. The one who got slapped was hurt but without saying
anything he wrote in the sand:
The other friend replied: "When someone hurts us we should write it down in sand where the winds of forgiveness can crase it away. But when someone dogs something good for us we must engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erasę it.
Today my best friend slapped me in the
face.
Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your blessings in stong.
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 swamp and started drowning; but his friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning he wrote on a stone:
-- Unknown
Today my best friend saved my life.
"Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities.”
- James L. Fredricks “You can make more friends by becoming interested in other people than you can by trying to get other people interested in
Did you know?
you."
-
Dale Carnegie
Friends are the family we choose for ourselves
"You can hardly make a friend in a year, but you can easily offend one in a minute.”
- Chinese Proverb
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