Two men who are best of friends were in a canoe traveling on a big river, both are not perfect swimmer. At one stage on their 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 on his hands with a pencil, “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.”
They kept on sailing until suddenly a storm arise, the other friend who was slapped fell into the river. He got trapped into the river and started drowning, but his friend who also could not swim perfectly, not minding that; jumped into the river and saved him. After they had both recovered from the shock, the friend who was slapped earlier took a stone and wrote, “Today my best friend saved my life.”
The friend who slapped and saved his best friend life asked him, “After I slapped you, you wrote on your palm with a pencil and now, you write in stone, why?”
The other friend replied, “When someone hurts us we should write it down with pencil on our palm where it can easily be erased away. But, when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone where it will be hard to be ever erased.”
Moral of the story
• A moment of retaliation in anger can cause lifelong regret, but a moment of patient
• True Friendship will always have their pros and cons always be willing to forgive another no matter the hurt.
Quote
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our true friends. (Martin Luther King Jr.)