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."
It's National
Friendship Week. Show your
friends how
much you care. Send this to
everyone you
consider a FRIEND, even if
it mean s
sending it back to the person who
sent it to
you. If it comes back to you,
then you'll
know you have a circle of friends.
YOU ARE MY
FRIEND AND I AM HONORED!
Now send this
to every friend you have!!
And to your
family
