Make sure you read all the way down to the last sentence.(Most importantly the last sentence)


There once was a little boy who had a bad   temper. His Father gave him a
bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he must hammer a
nail into the back of the fence. The first day the boy had driven 37 nails into
the fence. Over the next few weeks, as he learned to control his anger, the
number of nails hammered daily gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was
easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.  Finally the day came when the boy didn't  lose
his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that
the boy now pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper.

 
The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the
nails were gone. The father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence
He said, 'You have done 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.  A verbal wound
is as bad as a physical one.  Friends are
very rare jewels, indeed. They make you smile and encourage you to succeed.  They
lend an ear, they share words of praise and they always want to open their
hearts to us.




YOU ARE MY FRIEND AND I AM HONORED


Please forgive me if I have ever left a hole
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