I came across this Facebook Memory that I had shared from my friend, Adam Politsch, back in January of 2015. Eight years later, it still resonates with me and is worth sharing with you.
Read & reflect…
At my work each meeting begins with a reflection. A short little inspiration/thoughtful story and one from a meeting today resonated with me pretty strongly. I know a bunch of people including myself who can learn from this.
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.
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.
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.”
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What a lovely reflection and reminder for us all as we try our best each day to be the best version of ourselves…knowing that we will both hurt and be hurt in life but it need not be a living epitaph on our character.