>From: "Pearl Fernane" <pearlyshellz@...>
>To: "Joy Morris" <joymomgram@...>
>Subject: Fw: friends
>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:17:56 -0700
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jackie Ellis" <jellis@...>
>To: "'Carol'" <Velasquezfour@...>; "'Ellis, Betty'"
><Betty.Ellis@...>; "'Gina'" <BGLittlefair3@...>; "'Mary'"
><MAFLOWE1@...>; "'Pearlyshellz'" <pearlyshellz@...>; "'Susan'"
><Svoak@...>
>Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:25 AM
>Subject: FW: friends
>
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > > > > > A story tells 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.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 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 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."
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > LEARN TO WRITE
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > YOUR HURTS IN
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > THE SAND AND TO
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > CARVE YOUR
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > BENEFITS IN STONE.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > They say it takes a
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > minute to find a special
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > person, an hour to
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > appreciate them, a day
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > to love them, but then
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > an entire life
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > to forget them.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Send this phrase to
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > the people you'll never
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > forget. If you don't
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > send it to anyone,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > it means you're in a
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > hurry and that you've
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > forgotten your friends..
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Take the time to live!
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Do not value the THINGS
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > you have in your life. But value
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > WHO you have in your life!
> > > > > > >
> >
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