Friday, March 25, 2005

Nail in the fence

I hate to see my blog so bare. I have lots of things to tell but i'd rather talk about it than write/type it down. This is a story i received some time ago. Putting it here to share this with u guys (actually filling in the blank space)

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.

3 comments:

Deena.T said...

wow dat is so true!

Amethyste said...

u know when i first started reading the 'story' i thought that it was going to be a humorous one...but turns out to be pretty serious :p Makes a lot of sense...i think there was a similar analogy made with a broken pot....in the sense that you may be able to glue the pieces back together, but the cracks marks will remain. So i guess...we have to always be careful of wat we say ;) There goes my motivation to be more 'direct' hahaha

Farah Haida said...

ops, mimi. that's not the same of being direct. that's about controlling temper