There once was a little boy who had a very bad temper. His father
decided to hand him a bag of nails and said that every time the boy lost
his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the fence.
On the first day, the boy hammered
37 nails into that fence.
The boy gradually began to
control his temper
over the next few weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into
the fence slowly decreased. He discovered it was easier to control his
temper than to hammer those nails into the fence.
Finally, the day
came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father the
news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail
every day he kept his temper under control.
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.
“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 of the story: Control your anger, and don’t say things to people in the heat of the moment,
that you may later regret. Some things in life, you are
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