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 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 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.”
Moral of the story: The good will always be remembered, the bad should be forgotten.
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The Dove and the Ant (watch)
tells the story of an ant who was drinking by the river, suddenly slipped and fell into the river. The ant was helped by a dove that was perched on a tree by dropping a leaf so that the ant could find it, the ant thanked him. a few days later after the incident the ant saw a dove that the hunter was going to shoot, because the ant had been helped by the dove, the ant bit the hunter's leg so that the arrow aimed at the dove was not right, and it worked, the hunter winced in pain and left the dove. then, after that the dove thanked the ant and they became friends forever.
Moral of the story: one good deed deserves another
