>From: "pinkroses" <
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>Subject: Beautiful Story
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>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.
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>The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the
>sand:
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>TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.
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>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.
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>After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone:
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>TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE.
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>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."
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>LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR BENEFITS IN STONE.
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>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.
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>Do not value the THINGS you have in your life. But value WHO you have in
>your life!
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