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. A wound on the flesh may at least fade away but the wounds left on the heart will never move on. It is always accompanying us whether by our will or not. Hence it is wise to be careful before taking an action against somebody and it is more wise before telling bad things to somebody.
Now have you hurt anyone? If so it is time to go to them and apologize so that they can at least forgive you and try to the bad memories away...
Now have you hurt anyone? If so it is time to go to them and apologize so that they can at least forgive you and try to the bad memories away...
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