1. Sand and Stone
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2. This is a story about 2 friends who
were walking through a forest.
At one particular point the two got
into an argument and one friend
hit the other in the face.
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3. The one who was hit was hurt,
but without any word he
wrote in the sand:
‘Today my best friend hit
me in my face.’
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4. They walked on until they
found an oasis where they
decided to have a bath.
The one who had been hit
got stuck in the mud and
was drowning but the
friend saved him.
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5. When he came to, he carved
in a stone:
‘Today my best friend saved my
life’.
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6. The friend who had hit his best friend then
saved him asked:
‘After I hit you you wrote this in the sand and
now you carved in the stone that I saved
you, why did you do this?’
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7. The other friend answered:
‘When someone hurts us we
must write it in the sand where
the wind of forgiveness can
blow it away’
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8. But if someone does a good
deed for you, we have to
carve it in stone where no
wind can blow it away.’

9. Learn to write the hurt in the
sand and carve your good
experiences in stone.

10. It is said that it takes only a minute
to find extraordinary people, an
hour to appreciate them, a day to
love them, but it takes a whole life
to forget them.