Sand And Stone

Two frineds were crossing the desert.

At one point they had an argument,

and one slapped the other.

The one who got slapped, 

without saying anything wrote in the sand:

"TODAY MY BEST FRINED SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE"

They kept on walking till they found an oasis,

where they decided to take a bath,

the one who got slapped got stuck in the mire and was drowing,

but his friend saved him.

After the ordeal,

he wrote on a stone,

"TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE"

The friend who had slapped him,then saved his life asked,

"After I slapped you, you wrote on sand, and now on stone, why?"

His friend replied,

"When someone hurts us, we should writeit down on sand where the winds of forgiveness will erase it away.

But when someone does something good for us,we should engrave it on stone so that it will not never be forgotten."

Write your hurts in sand, but carve your blessings in stone.

A Rich Man's Lesson

Once a rich man took his son on a trip to the country with the purpose of showing him how poor people can be.

They spent a day and night in the farm of a poor family.

When they got home, the father asked the son.

"How was the trip?"

"Very good, Dad!"

"Did you see how poor people can be?" the father asked.

"Yeah!"

"And what did you learn?"

The son answered, "I saw that we have a dog at home, but they have four.

We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden,

But they have a creek that has no end.

We have imported lamps in the garden,

but they have the stars.

Our patio reaches to the front yard,

they have a whole horizon."

When the boy had finished, the father was speechless.

"Thanks Dad, for showing me how poor we are!"

Isn't it true that it all depends on how we look at things?

If you have love, friends, family, health, humor and a positive attitude towards life, you've got everything!

You can't buy any of these things.

You can have all the material possessions that you can imagine, provisions for the future, but if you are poor in spirit, you have nothing.

The right frame of mind envisions everything.

Slight- A wonderful gift

Once there was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind.

She hated everyone, except her boyfriend.

He was always there for her.

One day she told him,

"If I could see the world, I will marry you."

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her.

When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.

He asked her, "Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?" 

The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her.

She hadn't expected that.

The thought of looking at him like this for the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.

Her boyfriend left in tears and days later wrote her a note saying:"Take good care of your eyes, my dear; for before they were yours, they were mine." 

Only a few remember what life was like before, and who was always by their side in the most painful situations.

The human brain often differs in thought when our status changes.

The Professor's Lesson

When a professor served coffee to his former students who complained to him of stress in their working lives, he brought out an assortment of cups- porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, others exquisite.

After the students selected a cup of coffee the professor said, "All the nice looking cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain ones.I can assure you that the cup itself add no quality to the coffee. What you wanted was coffee, not the cup. But you consciously went for the best cup and began eyeing each other's cup. While it is normal to want only the best for yourselves, but that is the source for your problems and stress. Sometimes by concerntrating only on the things like the cup, we fail to enjoy the goodness God has provided for us."

The happiest people don't have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything.