There once was a little boy who had a bad temper. His father
gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper,
he must hammer a nail into the fence. The first day the boy had driven
37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks as he learned to
control his anger, the number of nails hammered daily, gradually
dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to
drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the
boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the
father suggested that the boy now
pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The
days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that
all the nails were gone.
The father took his son by the hand and
led him to the fence. He said “You have done well, my son, but look at
the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say
things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one.” You can put a
knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say
I’m sorry, the wound is still there. Make sure you control your temper
the next time you are tempted to say something you will regret later.
Author Unknown
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