Grandfather's story collection | 06 February 2017 15:40:10 PST
There was a boy who had anger issues. One day, the boy’s father told him to hammer a nail into the fence every time the boy felt very frustrated. On the first day, the boy hammered thirty-seven nails into the fence. He was very tired from hammering nails thirty-seven times, so the next day, he controlled his temper slightly better, and only hammered twenty nails into the fence. The third day, he only hammered fifteen nails into the fence. A few weeks passed, and eventually came the day when the boy didn’t need to hammer any nails into the fence. At that time, the boy’s father told him to remove the nails from the fence. Once the boy removed all the nails from the fence, there were lots and lots of holes in the fence. His father then told him: “You’ve learned to control your temper now, so you don’t need to hammer any more nails into the fence. But once you remove the nails, the damage in the fence cannot be removed. Your words cannot be taken back, either, and they will leave a scar forever, just like these nails, if you do not control them properly.”
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