One day two friends argued and one of them slapped the other. The latter, feeling the pain but saying nothing, wrote in the sand:
— Today my best friend slapped me in the face.
They continued walking and found an oasis, in the source of which they decided to swim. The one who received the slap began to drown, but his friend saved him. When he came to his senses, he wrote on the stone: “Today my best friend saved my life.”
The one who slapped and who saved the life of his friend asked him:
“When I offended you, you wrote in the sand, and now you write on the stone.” Why?
The friend replied:
“When someone offends us, we must write it in the sand so that the winds can erase it.” But when someone does something good, we must engrave it in stone so that no wind can erase it.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru