Sand and Stone

TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING
THROUGH THE DESERT DURING
SOME POINT OF THE JOURNEY,
THEY HAD ANARGUMENT;
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 FRIEND REPLIED
'WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US
WE SHOULD WRITE IT
DOWN IN SAND,
WHERE WINDS OF
FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.
BUT, WHEN SOME ONE
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.
THEY SAY IT
TAKES AMINUTE TO FIND
A SPECIALPERSON,
AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM,
A DAY TO LOVE THEM,
BUT THEN
AN ENTIRE LIFE TO FORGET THEM.
TAKE THE TIME TO LIVE!
DO NOT VALUE THE THINGS
YOU HAVE IN YOUR LIFE,
BUT VALUE WHO YOU
HAVE IN YOUR LIFE!
AND IF I HAPPEN TO GET IT BACK,
THEN I KNOW MY PLACE IN YOUR LIFE