A Good Story for Great Friends
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 graduallydwindled down. She discovered it was easier to hold her
temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came 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 day
passed and the young girl was finally able to tell her mother that all the nails were
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 in the fence. The fence will
never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar justlike 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.
Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND, even if it
means sending it back to the person who sent it to you. If it comes back to you, then
you'll know you have a circle of friends.
Please, forgive me if I have ever left a hole in your
fence...
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