Control Your
Temper
There once was a little boy who had a
bad temper(easily get angry, short 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 39
nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks as the boy learned to control his
anger, the number of nails hammered daily, gradually came down. He discovered
it was easier to hold his temper (be in calm) 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.
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