A father gives his son a bag of nails and asks him to drive one of the nails into their chest made of walnut each time he loses his temper and patience. The son drives exactly 37 nails in the first day.
As weeks get on, the boy learns how to maintain his self-control and begins to use less number of nails. However, over time the boy realizes in the meantime that it is easier to maintain his self-control than driving a nail into the walnut chest. He gives an account of the situation to his father each day when he did not use any of the nails.
This time, the father asks his son to pull out one of the driven nails from the chest each day when he maintains his self-control.
Weeks passes and the son finally completes pulling all the nails out with the comprehension of both patience and self-control and calls his father. The father holds the son’s hand, takes him right beside the chest and says him the following:
Yes son, you have worked hard and learned not to make a hole on the chest through maintaining self-control.
But just look at the holes on the chest! They will never heal and become the same as before!
Your emotional reactions and impatience will each time make an incurable wound in the tender heart of the others. No matter how much you make apology, those wounds will always be there. An oral attack will hurt someone at least as much as a physical attack.
Our friends are happiness for us, they make us laugh, encourage us for success, give us a careful ear and are always ready to open their hearts to us.
-SOCRATES
|16th of July, 2006.
publication 1223 military EST
As weeks get on, the boy learns how to maintain his self-control and begins to use less number of nails. However, over time the boy realizes in the meantime that it is easier to maintain his self-control than driving a nail into the walnut chest. He gives an account of the situation to his father each day when he did not use any of the nails.
This time, the father asks his son to pull out one of the driven nails from the chest each day when he maintains his self-control.
Weeks passes and the son finally completes pulling all the nails out with the comprehension of both patience and self-control and calls his father. The father holds the son’s hand, takes him right beside the chest and says him the following:
Yes son, you have worked hard and learned not to make a hole on the chest through maintaining self-control.
But just look at the holes on the chest! They will never heal and become the same as before!
Your emotional reactions and impatience will each time make an incurable wound in the tender heart of the others. No matter how much you make apology, those wounds will always be there. An oral attack will hurt someone at least as much as a physical attack.
Our friends are happiness for us, they make us laugh, encourage us for success, give us a careful ear and are always ready to open their hearts to us.
-SOCRATES
|16th of July, 2006.
publication 1223 military EST
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