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[sinjun]

Someone Emailed this to me, and I thought I'd put it here. It's a sappy overly sweet sentiment, but there's grains in it that I like. Yes, I admit it - I am a sappy, overly sentimental, emotional idiot.

But I'm having fun!


>
> 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, wrote in the sand:
>
> TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE."
>
>
> They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where
theydecided
>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 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."
>
> LEARN TO WRITE YOUR HURTS IN THE SAND AND TO CARVE YOUR
BENEFITS
>IN STONE.
>
> 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. Send this phrase to the people you'll never
forget.
>It's a short message to let them know that you'll never forget them.
>
> If you don't send it to anyone, it means you're in a hurry
and that
>you've forgotten your friends. Take the time to live!!