Sand and Stone - 沙与石

Sand and Stone

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, 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 had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but his 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 other friend replied: "When someone hurts us, we should write it down in sand, where the 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 blessings in stone.


沙与石


有一则阿拉伯的传说：两个朋友在沙漠中旅行，旅途中他们为了一件小事争吵起来，其中一个还打了另一个一记耳光。

被打的人觉得深受屈辱，一个人走到帐篷外，一言不语地在沙子上写下：“今天我的好朋友打了我一巴掌。”

他们继续往前走，一直走到一片绿洲，停下来饮水和洗澡。在河边，那个被打了一巴掌的人差点被淹死，幸好被朋友救起来了。

被救起之后，他拿了一把小剑在石头上刻下了：“今天我的好朋友救了我一命。”
他的朋友好奇地问道：“为什么我打了你后，你要写在沙子上，而现在要刻在石头上呢？”

他笑着回答说：“当被一个朋友伤害时，要写在易忘的地方，风会负责抹去它；相反，如果被帮助，我们要把它刻在心里的深处，那里任何风都不能磨灭它。”

真正的朋友的伤害也许是无心的，帮助却是真心的，忘记那些无心的伤害，铭记那些对你的真心帮助，你将会发现这世上真心的朋友不断多起来。