Control Your Anger

Once, there was a young boy who had a bad temper. One day, his father gave him a bag of nails and told him,

“Each time you lose your temper, hammer a nail into the fence in our backyard.”

On the first day, the boy drove 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, he slowly learned to control his anger. As he did, he hammered fewer nails each day. He realized it was easier to stay calm than to hammer those nails.

Eventually, there came a day when he didn’t lose his temper at all. Proud, he told his father.

“Great job,” his father said. “Now, every day you stay calm, pull one nail out of the fence.”

The days passed, and one by one, the boy removed all the nails. When he told his father, the man took him by the hand and led him back to the fence.

“You’ve done well,” the father said. “But look at the fence. It’s full of holes. It will never be the same.”

He continued, “When you get angry and say hurtful things, they leave a scar—just like these holes. You can stab someone with a knife and pull it out, but no matter how many times you say ‘I’m sorry,’ the wound is still there.”

Moral: Think before you speak in anger. Words can hurt deeply, and some damage can’t be undone.

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