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THE DANGER OF ANGER<br />
There was once a young boy with a terrible temper. He<br />
used to speak harshly and get angry many times a day, at<br />
the slightest provocation. His wise father told him that<br />
every time he got angry he had to hammer a nail into the<br />
wood fence in the backyard. The first day the boy hammered<br />
45 nails into the fence – practically his entire day<br />
was spent in the back yard. The next day, with his arm<br />
sore from hammering, he tried to get angry less. He hammered<br />
only 25 nails into the fence the second day. By the<br />
end of a few weeks, the boy proudly went to his dad and<br />
told him that he had not gotten angry at all that day.<br />
So, the boy’s father told him that now he could start removing<br />
the nails from the fence. There were 2 ways that<br />
nails could be removed: either if the boy could go an entire<br />
day without getting mad, or if the boy apologized sincerely<br />
to someone whom he had hurt through his anger.<br />
So, the boy began to apologize to people whom he had<br />
wounded and he tried hard not to get angry. Slowly, slowly,<br />
the nails began to get pulled out of the fence. One day,<br />
the boy proudly went to his dad and told him that all the<br />
nails were out of the fence. He told his dad that his anger<br />
was “a thing of the past.”<br />
His dad then led the boy by the hand to the fence and<br />
showed him how the fence was now riddled with holes. It<br />
was no longer the sturdy, strong fence it once had been.<br />
It was now weakened and damaged. Every time the wind<br />
blew strongly the fence swayed in the wind, for it was so<br />
full of holes that the breeze caused the fence to move.<br />
“Do you see that?” The father asked the boy. “For you,<br />
anger is a thing of the past. Yet, this fence will never recover.<br />
Every time you get angry at someone it is like driving<br />
a nail into them. You may later remove the nail, but the<br />
hole is still there. The effect of your anger can not be<br />
removed.”<br />
In life sometimes it is easy to get angry, easy to yell, easy<br />
to hit those we love. We assuage our own consciences by<br />
saying, “He made me mad,” or, “She made me hit her.”<br />
But, whose hand is it really that hits? Whose mouth is it<br />
really that speaks harsh words?<br />
We think, “It’s no big deal. I said sorry.” Or we say, “Oh,<br />
but that was yesterday. Today I’ve been nice.” For us, it<br />
may be that easy. But remember the fence is still sitting<br />
there with a hole in it, even though you have moved on. If<br />
you hammer enough nails into someone, eventually they<br />
will be forever weakened, forever damaged. You can stab<br />
someone with a knife and then pull out the knife but the<br />
blood will continue to pour. “Sorry” does not stop the blood<br />
of wounds. It may pave the way to recovery, but the wound<br />
is still there.<br />
The goal in life should be to be like water – a stone falls in<br />
and only causes a ripple for a moment. The “hole” in the<br />
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