قصيص اجنبيه.Gosais foreign

There was a boy who was always losing his 

temper. His father gave him a bag full of 

nails and said to him, “My son, I want you 

to hammer a nail into our garden fence 

every time you need to direct your anger 

against something and you lose your temper

.” 
So the son started to follow his father’s 

advice. On the first day he hammered in 37 

nails, but getting the nails into the fence 

was not easy, so he started trying to 

control himself when he got angry. As the 

days went by, he was hammering in less 

nails, and within weeks he was able to 

control himself and was able to refrain 

from getting angry and from hammering 

nails. He came to his father and told him 

what he had achieved. His father was happy 

with his efforts and said to him: “But now, 

my son, you have to take out a nail for 

every day that you do not get angry.”
The son started to take out the nails for 

each day that he did not get angry, until 

there were no nails left in the fence. 
He came to his father and told him what he 

had achieved. His father took him to the 

fence and said, “My son, you have done 

well, but look at these holes in the fence. 

This fence will never be the same again.” 

Then he added: “When you say things in a 

state of anger, they leave marks like these 

holes on the hearts of others. You can stab 

a person and withdraw the knife but it 

doesn’t matter how many times you say ‘I’m 

sorry,’ because the wound will remain.