Anger control, an educational story, Emotional wounds are often more dangerous than physical wounds, islam, shahalom
Emotional wounds are often more dangerous than physical wounds
A very small boy was very angry. He used to get angry for very little reasons. His father gave him a bag full of nails and said that every time you get angry, one nail will be stuck in the wooden fence of our garden.
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On the first day the boy had to go to the garden and hammer 37 nails. Over the next few weeks the boy managed to get his anger under some control so the number of new nails in the wood each day gradually decreased. He realized that controlling his anger was much easier than hammering nails into a wooden fence.
learn to control your anger
At last the day came when he did not have to drive a single nail. He told this to his father. His father told him, now on the days when you can fully control your anger, remove one nail at a time. Many days passed and one day the boy told his father that he had managed to remove all the nails. His father now took him to the garden and pointed to the wooden fence and said, 'You have done your job very well, now you can control your anger but look, the nail holes still remain in every wood.
A wooden fence will never go back to its original state. When you say something in anger to someone, it's like you hit a nail in his mind, and even if you take it back later, it still leaves a scar in his mind. So learn to control your anger. Emotional wounds are often more dangerous than physical wounds.
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