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Once there was a young boy named Joey, who had problem controlling his temper. When he became angry, he would just say anything that came to his mind and hurt people. So, his father gave him a bag of nails and a hammer and said, “Every time you get angry, hammer one nail into the wall in our backyard.”
The first few days Joey hammered so many nails that he emptied half the bag. Over the weeks, the number of nails he hammered into the wall reduced and gradually, his temper was much in control. Then came a day when he didn’t lose his temper at all. His father asked him to remove one nail each day because he managed not to lose his temper.
Finally, on the day when Joey was removing the last nail, his father said, “You have done well, Joey. But do you see the holes in the wall? The wall is never going to be the same, even after repainting. Likewise, when you say mean things in anger, you will leave a scar in the person’s heart as the nails did to the wall.”
