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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.
The first day the boy had
driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the few weeks, as he learned 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. He told his father about it and the father
suggested that the boy now pull 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. 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 person and draw it out. It
won't matter how many times you say I'm sorry, the wound is still there."
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THE INSTITUTE OF MIND
SCIENCES PAKISTAN 
