Subject: Nail to your friends
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 15:01:33 +0000
There once was a little girl who had a bad temper. Her
mother gave her a
bag of nails and told her that every time she lost her
temper,she must
hammer a nail into the back of the fence.
The first day the girl had driven 37 nails into the
fence.
Over the next few weeks, as she learned to control her
anger, the number of
nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. She
discovered it was easier
to hold her temper than to drive those nails into the
fence.
Finally the day came when the girl didn’t lose her
temper at all. She told
her mother about it and the
mother suggested that the girl now pull out one nail
for each day that she
was able to hold her temper.
The days passed and the young girl was finally able to
tell her mother that
all the nails were gone. The
mother took her daughter by the hand and led her to
the fence.
She said, “You have done well, my daughter, 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 person 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.
Friendship is a rare jewel. Friends 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.
