Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Why should you control your anger?

An interesting story........
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 histemper, 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 fewweeks, as he learned to control his anger, the number of nails hammereddaily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold histemper than to drive those nails into the fence.
Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper at all. He told hisfather about it and the father suggested that the boy now pull out one nailfor each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and theyoung 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 willnever 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 stillthere. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.
Hence, we need to learn this aspect and implement in our lives.. be it personal or professional!

No comments:

Post a Comment