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Sand and Stone شن و سنگ



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 the friend 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 BENEFITS IN STONE

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

we should try to fforget other's bad work maybe we can not do this work but if we can forget other's bad work maybe other can forget our bad work and we should not forget other's good work

Anonymous said...

This story is a resul for us. I think that remain for us just is some good memorise and it remid me to a poem of molavi that say nothing isnot worse than revengefulness

Anonymous said...

This story says:disappearing the note on sand is similar to forgetting mistake work of people. we must always erase bad memorys of our friends in our mind & remember all of good works even least one of them .if we always do this it become queen of our mind & we observe this fact without thinking & deciding& resolving.

Anonymous said...

Good memories & good behaviour of other persons remain in our heart & mind forever. If one of your friends hurt you. Just take it easy and forget it. You should learn to forgive. Saving good things in mind and erasing the memories of other persons emmorals from mind is a skill! You should try to do it! Remember until you don't forgive others you mustn't except that they forgive you!

Anonymous said...

when w forget the bad acts from others and remember their kindness all the times our life will be full of beauty and ourself will live easier .

Anonymous said...

and our behaver with everyone will improve and in fact it make that others have a good idea and a good main picture of us and it is better for us to live more beauty.

Anonymous said...

friendship is biult by exeessive generosity . we must foget evlis and remember kindness. if we forget evilsworld be without wars and bloodshed and all creatures will live in peace

Anonymous said...

Do you read"ettelaat haftegi" magazine ? I suggest U 2 read this magazine . because they published translation of your story or you translate …….!!!
We must remember kindness and forget badness because kindness make our life better and help us to tolerate difficulties.

Anonymous said...

Sometimes we must forget some bad behavior of others and their mistakes. in fact we shouldn't attach importance to these things and forgive them because no one is perfect. maybe in some situations we do sth wrong and our friends forgive us.