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.
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