Wednesday, November 17, 2010

Story time -- Don't use Sorry.

There once was a little girl who had a bad temper.

Her mother gave her a bag of nails and told her that every time she lost her temper, she must hammer a nail into the back of the fence.

The first day the girl had driven 37 nails into the fence. Over the next few weeks, as she learned to control her anger, the number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down.

She discovered it was easier to hold her temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Finally the day came when the girl didn't lose her temper at all.

She told her mother about it and the mother suggested that the girl now pull out one nail for each day that she was able to hold her temper. The days passed and the young girl was finally able to tell her mother that all the nails were gone.

The mother took her daughter by the hand and led her to the fence.
She said, "You have done well, my daughter, 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 person and draw it out. It won't matter how many times you say "I'm sorry", the wound is still there. A verbal wound is as bad as a physical one.

Caution: Just forget the story as soon as u read it after taking into u the essence of the story. Why I am telling this is because tomorrow u should not be in trouble.

Puriyalaya...?? Ok after reading this story u may think of doing it with your child. (Ok if you dont have one now also may be in future...) ... But please don't try that. These days kids are really smart and cunning instead of nailing the wall they may nail you... If anything like that happens then I am in no way responsible... :P

4 comments:

  1. From which place are u getting the ideas to post on ur blog? Really superb blog. Wonderful writing and excellent story telling. U must become a book writer in future. U have all the capabilities to make the readers stick until the last word. Marvellous stuff. But one thing "Sathiyama thaanga mudiyala"

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  2. @Moto :
    Unexpected : Really superb blog. Wonderful writing and excellent story telling. U must become a book writer in future. U have all the capabilities to make the readers stick until the last word. Marvellous stuff.

    Expected : Sathiyama thaanga mudiyala...

    Thanks for all :)

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  3. @ janani: intha kathaya naan yaerkanavae padichrukkaenae.! Nice one. (unakku thaan kovam adigamaa varum apdinu kaelvi patrukkaen ;-))

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  4. @Jithu: Enaku kovam "varum ana varadhu"... :P

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