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Written on October 16, 2008 – 4:55 am | by admin | | Tags: inspiration, nails, Short Story

On day, there is a man-child who has crabbed. To reduce the customs of his anger, his father give him a pocket of nails and asked the child to hammer a nail in the fence behind the house every time he was angry.

Today was the first time the child hitting 48 nails to the fence … Then gradually the number of starts is reduced. He found that it is easier to keep anger from the hammer nails into the fence home.

Finally the time that the child is feel utterly can control the anger and quick not to lose patience. He tells this to his father, which he then proposes to revoke one nail for each day where he is not angry.

Days passed, and the boys finally tell his father that all the nails have been withdrawed by it. Then father guiding his son to the fence. “Well, you have been successful with a good son, but look for the holes on this fence. This fence will never be the same as before.” Father of the silent moment, and then return to continue words,” When you say something in your anger, your words such as the former has left a hole in the heart of this… other people. ”

“You can thrust a knife on someone, and then pull a knife … But it does not matter how many times you apologize, puncture wounds that will always stay there … and injured because the word is the same with the worst physical injuries on us …”