Loving with an open hand 放爱一条生路 The first passage Sand and stone The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert(沙漠). during some point of the journey they had an argument(辩论), and one friend slapped the other one in the face(slap sb in the face 打某人的脸). 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(绿洲), where they decided to take a bath(洗澡.the one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire (泥潭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 asked him,“after SI hurt you, you wrote in the sandand now you wrote on a stone. Why?” The other friend replied:“ when someone hurts us we should