Motivational and inspirational short stories about life are always powerful reads; These stories makes you think and inspire you to incorporate the learning in your life. Sometime back we have started a series of motivational and inspirational short stories about life based on the request of readers. We began with posting our first story “Life is like a cup of coffee” . Here is the Story # 2 for all of you. It’s short story about a father and his son (“Nail on the fence”). This is very old story and one of my favorite.
Motivational and Inspirational Short Story # 2
Once there was a small town; a man was living happily with small family comprising his wife and a son. As his son was growing up, he noticed that the little boy’s behavior was getting changed. His son was developing a very bad temper. He tried to counsel him, but there was no result. The boy used to get angry very frequently and often out of anger he used bad language. His words started hurting others. He scolded kids in school, neighbors and even his friends due to anger. His friends and neighbors started avoiding him, and his parents were getting really worried about him.
One beautiful morning, when the sun was rising from the east, he called his son in his bedroom. He gave him a bag of nails and a hammer; and said that every time the boy lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail into the wooden fence.
The boy followed his father’s instructions and on the very first day he hammered 43 nails into wooden fence of the backyard. This was alarming and the little boy decided to control on his anger.
The boy gradually began to control his temper over the next few weeks, and the number of nails he was hammering into the fence slowly decreased. Finally, the day came when the boy didn’t lose his temper at all. He told his father the news and the father suggested that the boy should now pull out a nail every day he kept his temper under control.
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone. The boy learnt the art of getting rid of anger. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.
The father said “Excellent; you have done very well, my son, 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 just like this one. You can put a knife in a man and draw it out. It won’t matter how many times you say I’m sorry, the wound is still there.”
Control your anger, before it controls you Many times due to heat of the moments we say things to others, on which which we feel regret later on. The words are like bullets which can never come back to weapon, once triggered. Same way words leave deep scars on the mind and souls of others. Those wounds are like holes in the fence, which are irreparable. You may apologies (taking the nails out of fence), but scar (holes in fence) will always remain there.
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