Subject: Meaningful words
VERY MEANINGFUL, PLS READ. *_-
Make sure you read all the way down to the last
sentence!
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 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 her temper was 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 on 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. 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.