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.” Make sure you control your temper the next time you are tempted to say something you will regret later.
wowww...isnt this a very big lesson..not just for kids or youngsters or grownups? isnt the anger the biggest reason for making/breaking a relationship?? lovely story..hope we all understand the magnitude of the scars we leave with our words and actions out of anger
How true, the scars remain for a long time. (Or one should be like Swami Vivekananda or Mahatma Gandhi and other saints who were not bothered about all these "NAILS"