山西省永济市涑北中学高三英语总复习：美文欣赏（2）（SandandStone）

　　Two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other 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 the friend 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 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.”