Control your tempers
There was a boy who was always losing his temper. His father gave him a bag full ofnails and said to him, “My son, I want youto hammer a nail into our garden fenceevery time you need to direct your angeragainst something and you lose your temper.”
So the son started to follow his father’sadvice. On the first day he hammered in 37nails, but getting the nails into the fencewas not easy, so he started trying tocontrol himself when he got angry. As thedays went by, he was hammering in less nails, and within weeks he was able to control himself and was able to refrain from getting angry and from hammering
nails. He came to his father and told him what he had achieved. His father was happy with his efforts and said to him: “But now,
my son, you have to take out a nail for every day that you do not get angry.”
The son started to take out the nails for each day that he did not get angry, until there were no nails left in the fence.
He came to his father and told him what hehad achieved. His father took him to the
fence and said, “My son, you have done well, but look at these holes in the fence.
This fence will never be the same again.”
Then he added: “When you say things in a state of anger, they leave marks like these holes on the hearts of others. You can stab a person and withdraw the knife but it
doesn’t matter how many times you say ‘I’m sorry,’
because the wound will remain.
Our Regards…
