This is the story of a boy who had a very bad temper. One day his father decided to hand over him a bag of nails & said that every time when the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the wall.
On the first day the boy hammered sixty nails into the wall. The boy gradually began to control his temper. Over the next few weeks, the number of nails he was hammering into the wall slowly decreased.
He realised that it was easier to control his temper than to hammer those nails into the wall. Finally the day came when the boy didn't lose his temper. He told this thing to his father very excitedly. His father suggested that the boy should now pull out the nails out of the wall every day & should kept his temper under control.
After few days the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all nails were gone from the wall. The father took his son by the hand & led him to the wall.
Father told. " You have done well my son but just look at the holes into the wall. The wall will never be the same as it was before. When you say anything in anger, it leave a scar just like this one. You can put a knife on a man & draw it out. It wont matter how many times you say I am sorry, the wound is still there "
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