I’m trying to close my eyes after taking some medicines. I thought I could rest and sleep but unable to do so. I was reading some notes from my scrap book and found this story that I felt was worth sharing. The story begins…

There was once a little boy who had a bad temper. His father decided to give him a bag of nails with a hammer 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 in 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learnt 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. The father suggested that the boy now pulled out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The boy accepted the challenge.

The days passed and the young boy finally able to take out all the nails from the fence. He then informed his father on his achievement.

The father took his son by the hand, hugged him and led him to the fence, and said,”You have done well, my son, but look at the holes on the fence. The fence will never be the same again. 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 will still be there.”

The moral of the story is ……

You think about it!

Talk soon

Jailani