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.
Moral : Make sure you control your words and temper the next time you are
tempted to say something you will regret later, even if you forget..the scars would have remained.
