标题: 〖分享〗Sand & stone [打印本页] 作者: carrie 时间: 2006-8-17 06:39
标题: 〖分享〗Sand & stone
Sand & stone
伤害只写在沙地上
The story goes 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.
两个朋友在荒漠里穿行, 途中他们发生了争执; 其中一个人扇了另一位一个耳光。
The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, wrote in the sand: “Today my best friend slapped me in the face.”
被打的人非常伤心，但他什么也没有说，只是在沙地上写道：“今天，我最好的朋友打了我一个耳光。”
They kept on walking until they touch 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.”
恢复过来后，他在石头上写道：“今天，我最好的朋友救了我的命。”
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?”
那位打他并救了他的朋友问，“为什么我伤害你时，你把字写在沙地上，而现在却把字刻在石头上呢？”
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 engraves it in stone where no wind ever erases it.”