A
story tells that two friends were walking through the desert.
In a specific 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 anything to say, 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 got slapped and hurt started
drowning, and the other friend saved him. When he recovered from
the fright, he wrote on a stone: "TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY
LIFE".
The friend who saved and slapped his best friend, asked him,
"Why, after I hurt you, you wrote in the sand, and now you write
on a stone?"
The other friend, smiling, replied: "When a friend hurts us, we
should write it down in the sand, where the winds of forgiveness
get in charge of erasing it away, and when something great
happens, we should engrave it in the stone of the memory of the
heart, where no wind can erase it."