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NAILS IN THE FENCE
Make
sure you read all the way down to the last sentence.
(Most
importantly the last sentence.)
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 back
of 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. " A verbal
wound
is as bad as a physical one.
Friends
are very rare jewels, indeed. They
make
you smile and encourage you to succeed.
They
lend an ear, they share words of praise
and
they always want to open their hearts to us."
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