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 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.
Make sure you control your temper the next time you are tempted to say something you will regret later.
well, i have heard this story before. Once at 2006, but I do remember this story until now.
The woman who tell this story, idk where she is now, but I remember her.
Actually, after I grew up, i don't really agree with this illustration.
Human is human. We are growing.
Sometimes, we heal,
sometimes, we get hurt,
Sometimes, we forget that we hurt, and sometimes we forget that we got hurt,
Sometimes, we remember, moments in our life.
We can't erase, what happened in our life, happiness and sadness.
Maybe this is what this illustration called 'scar'.
But even scar, it isn't hurt anymore.
When it's still hurt, it's means that we are not healed yet.
Or maybe, we are still in healing. :D
Btw, it's still a nice story. It always teach me to be careful in each words I say.
Coz, i am a woman that has a big room to remember what people ever said to me (deep to my heart).
I ever said, be careful on what u said on me, what do u said to me.
I don't threaten anyone, but that's me. :)
It's hard to erase something that u has keep it in your heart.
and I do appreciate what people said ( if it's precious for me :p)
