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This was one I received
in an email by a long time internet friend. Little do they know that
it was sent in a time of need... to remind me just what friends do
mean... and that at times we all hurt and get hurt... and to always
remember to look for the stones we pass by... and forever keep what
is most important in our hearts
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 wrote 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 muse
engrave it in stone where no wind can ever erase it."
Learn to write your
hurts in the sand and to carve your benefits 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.
Do not value the things you
have in your life,
but value who you have in your life!
Send this
to the people you will never forget. And better yet send it to a
friend that may have hurt you and or saved you. Let them know what
your friendship means. Let them know what it would be like without
it... let them know how important they are even if they don't see it
at the moment... perhaps if they read this with an open heart in
time they will.
TRIPLES with EMMA |