Inspirational Stories

Focus On The Good

Two friends were walking through the desert. At one stage in their 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 he 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 have a wash. The one who had been slapped got stuck in a mire and started drowning, but his friend saved him. After he had recovered from his shock, he wrote on a stone, 'Today my best friend saved my life.'

The friend who slapped and saved his best friend asked him, 'After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write in 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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Focus on the good in others. More often than not, it's always the bad things we remember most clearly about others. That's why there's so much hate all around. Maybe if we tried focusing on the good things people have done, there will be less hate, and more love. Maybe if we actively forgive people of their wrongdoings, the world would be a much brighter place. And maybe if we learnt to see the good in things around us, we'd learn to see the good in ourselves.

Learn to see the good in others. Maybe then you'll learn to love yourself.