Sand and Stone

Nguyễn Vân Mai
(nvanmai)

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Unfortunately, this story has no source as it was written by some Anonymous Author and I was told by one of my friends. But found really interesting, so I post here for anyone who is in the mood for some discussion later.


Sand and Stone

A story tells that 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, he 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 his 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 other 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.

Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your blessings in stone.

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Isn't it so true?
 
yeah it is so so true... everyone in this world should do the same then world peace is not impossible.. but sadly some people still do the other way around.. :(
 
Chỉnh sửa lần cuối:
.... forgive is good , forget is the best ....

( <-- I coin that phrase by myself :D .. haven't seen any English idiom have the same meaning yet :D )

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I was told this story a long time ago in VNese :D
Then I had a chance to read it in English. Nice story :)

<Hình như em có source của chuyện này đấy ạ :D >
 
Trần Bích Thủy đã viết:
.... forgive is good , forget is the best ....

( <-- I coin that phrase by myself :D .. haven't seen any English idiom have the same meaning yet :D )

...
nice phrase babe :* but i still think that there's something we should never forget :x
 
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