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Do not loose
Temper
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.
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