What kind of a friend are you to your friends?

[Jay-Jay247]

Two friends were walking through a desert.
During some point of the journey, they had an argument and one friend slapped the other friend on the face. The one who hot slapped on the face was hurt but without saying anything, wrote on the sand, "Today my best friend slapped me in the face."
They kept on walking untill they found an oasis, where they decide 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 the stone, "Today my best friend saved my life."  The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend, ask him, " After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write in a stone. 'Why?' and the friend replied, "when someone hurt us, we should write it in sand, where wind of forgiveness can erase it away." "And when someone does something good for us, we must engrave it in stone, where no wind can erase it."

Guys please drop a comment and share your thoughts with me.

[EluguHcman]

You don't have to wind away with every situations someone hurts you because sometimes you may not survive the segment of getting hurt again.
One thing is sure that people would always hurt you in one way or the other, so we also could be in the virtue of hurting others on knowingly or unknowingly.

We also don't have to cut of with people due to slight feelings of them that makes us feel hurt because they can be a valuable to us in time coming.

I have sometimes had some materials at home and finds them irreverent and occupying the spaces when they are not needed again so I trashes them off to the waste but sometimes I find them being replaceable in some broken situations or having them to be attached to something that is not sufficient enough to hold on to soni goes back to the wastes to pick it up back and make very good use out of it and sometimes after trashing them to the waste and going back to pick em up I don't find it back there again so then, it gets me regretted even having it useless in the first place.

Just as said that there is always sense from some nonsenses, so also we should not be so in a haste to pull out from people who had hurst us because they could be to our needs somedays, sometimes and somewhere out there.

[albon]

The event was beautiful but not like that in my life. Close loved ones will hurt you but never walk away from them. Because we can be hurt by any person at any time so the close ones are always loved. As our only tool in bad times is close loved ones. If we are precious with them in time then the feeling of hurt does not feel. I interact with very few people in my personal life but the ones i do really mean a lot to me. So the original should always be considered the best material and the dishonorable should be discarded.

[Crypto Fella]

The event was beautiful but not like that in my life. Close loved ones will hurt you but never walk away from them. Because we can be hurt by any person at any time so the close ones are always loved. As our only tool in bad times is close loved ones. If we are precious with them in time then the feeling of hurt does not feel. I interact with very few people in my personal life but the ones i do really mean a lot to me. So the original should always be considered the best material and the dishonorable should be discarded.

Well said, thanks for being factual and truthful.

[Wiwo]

Life is in phases and if one phase guve us hurt, on the other side of it is also happiness, the universe is wired to function that way, both friends are just part of each others journey and at some point there is band to be disagreements along the line  but the ability to manage each other is the resources for the future.

There is alot of moral lesson on this write ups, the one I mostly cherish is that, we should not write off people that life bring us together with.

[bisdak40]

The scenario is about friendship and forgiveness when the friend slaps him he forgives and forgets and when his other friend helps him he cherishes the good deed that his friend has done for him. In life, we encounter friends who hurt us and friends also who help us when we are in need. The story tells us that forgiveness isn't about saying what the other person did was okay. It's about letting go of anger and bitterness to move on.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

The scenario is about friendship and forgiveness when the friend slaps him he forgives and forgets and when his other friend helps him he cherishes the good deed that his friend has done for him. In life, we encounter friends who hurt us and friends also who help us when we are in need. The story tells us that forgiveness isn't about saying what the other person did was okay. It's about letting go of anger and bitterness to move on.

That's a pretty amazing way of summarizing the whole story! By highlighting how important it is to forgive as well as to cherish the good deeds of others around you, you've been able to  capture the whole essence of the story.
Indeed, it's really powerful to forgive because that way, you'll be letting out a whole ton of negative emotions/energy that comes with the hurtful experiences.

It's very true that forgiveness isn't about justifying or putting up with the hurt or harm others have caused you, but instead, it's more about setting yourself free from the negative feelings of anger and resentment and move forward without seeking to retaliate.

[Dr.Bitcoin_Strange]

Those are friend's we should keep, a forgiving friend and a trustworthy friend, however don't use the soft heart of your friend for granted and don't be a friend that always forgive a every evil act of a friend, some friends will always want to take advantage of your soft heart which is very wrong, I know of two friends that were very close they even grew up together, one of the friend always love taking advantage of the other because he noticed the other always forgives him, as time goes on the soft heart friend bought a property in the name of his friend which was later taken by the friend which his name was on the property, such a friend don't deserve forgiveness even if you forgive him or her don't get close to that friend again because he or she can kill you one day just to take what belongs to you.

Any friend that always derive pleasure in hurting you should be cut off, some friends will never do any good to you they will always want you to suffer, but will love you to always do good to them, friendship should not be one-sided it should be two-sided, when there's love between two friends they will progress and enjoy there friendship, they will always help each other.

[bitterguy28]

people are not simply white and black: good and bad some people can still be good people even with a few mistakes in the past i do not think a few mistakes should define who you are

however it will be a different story if all your friend do is bring harm to you you still should know when to forgive and when to cut people off

[bright4mech]

They are different types of people in the world and most times you can't predict human beings, because they can do what not being expected either good or bad, which is the person you call your best friend can left you up in life and also can bring the person down, mostly in financial area. Therefore one need to be careful and also be prayerful in life to cancel every spirit of error out of the way.

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

W have different kinds of friends, but i will say this that we should endeavor to be a friend of benefits to others, not because we don't cherish on what we have or because we are too generous in giving, but  we are having the understanding of the power of making a positive influence in the lives of others around us, this could be termed as friends with benefits because you have invested on them what they may never forget about you in life.

[Sim_card]

It shows that a good friend will hurt you and also help you out in difficult times and we should not take things too personal because no one knows what will happen tomorrow. Keep the good deeds in your heart and forget about the bad deeds of your friends no matter how much they offend you just find a reason for their actions so that you don't miss the good part of them.

[Rruchi man]

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It is a story with a moral that we should not allow one bad deed done by someone we call a friend ruin the image we have of them in our heads or spoil our friendship after so many good deeds have been done in the past. I once listened to a wise man say that your attitude or the good you do for your friend should not be based on only the good they have done for you in the past but should be based on the respect and love you have for the friendship. He went on to say that if you do for someone you call a friend as they do for you, then you are not really a good friend because the day they do you a single bad, you would repay that bad with bad instead of simply forgiving them.

[robelneo]

The lesson here is that we must quickly forget the evil deeds a friend did and remember all the good deeds a friend did to us. There should be no revenge between two friends; they should always remember the good things friends did to us.

I'm like this to my friends. If they do something wrong to me, I quickly forget and just remember the good times we had because there are no perfect friendships. We sometimes hurt our friends who are dear to us.