Friends

>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,
>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 other 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
> BLESSINGS 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.
>
>Send this phrase to
>the people you'll never
> forget. If you don't
>send it to anyone,
> it means you're in a
>hurry and that you've
>forgotten your friends.
> Take the time to live!
>
>Do not value the THINGS
>you have in your life. But value
>WHO you have in your life!