NAIL IN THE FENCE

Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence. (Most importantly the last sentence)

 

 

 

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.  

 

 

Friends are very rare jewels, indeed. They  

  

make you smile and encourage you to succeed.  

 

 

They lend an ear, they share words of praise  

 

 
 
 

and they always want to open their hearts to us."  

YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED!  

Now send this to every friend you have!!   

 

 

Please forgive me if I have ever left a hole. J