Nail In The Fence
Mood:  energetic
>Subject: Nail in the Fence
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>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.
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>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.
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He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy nowpull 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.
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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."