Why You Should Stop Creating Enemies for Yourself Now - Ep. 5

in #life6 years ago

In ways without number, we do create enemies for ourselves either within our neighborhood or in place of work.

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Among the ways without number, there is loss of tempter which can also be regarded as hot temper.

Hot temper can only destroy something but incapable of building. When it hammers a person's heart, it will leave a hole in the heart for so long if not forever.

There was a little boy who lived in a village. He was loved by his father and mother so dearly.

You can imagine the type of love that parents will have for their only son.

But this boy had one problem. Loss of tempter! He always got angry on little thing. When this happened, he would start hurting people with his words.

Nearly everyone in the village, both young and old, male and females, families and friends had been scolded one after the other due to his hot temper.

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The habit became a great origin of worries for his parents. They tried all their possible best to change him for good but all labour lost in vain.

Once he forgot his abusive and offensive words said to people when he was angry, the victims would not forget. In so doing, they would be avoiding him.

One day, his father came up with a good but hilarious idea. He gave him a big bag that contained nails and persuaded him to be picking a nail and hammer it to the wall any time he became angry.

The boy though found it funny but decided to follow his father's instruction.

On that day, he became angry thirty times and he hammered thirty nails, one nail at a time.

Day by day, he became tired of hammering nails on the wall, so he started controlling his temper to reduce the number of times he would hammer nails on the wall.

It later came to pass that he didn't hammer any nail to the wall. He totally put his temper under control. He went to his father to tell him the new development..

Then, he father told him to go and start removing those nails one after the other. He removed almost all of them in few days and went back to his father to inform him.

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His father replied and said, "That is good of you. I can see that you're able to remove almost all of them but not all. Then look at the wall very well, what can you see from the place you removed those nails?".

The boy replied, "Father, I can see holes".

"That is correct, you hammered nails on the wall, you were only able to remove the nails but unable to erase the holes from the wall. Even, you were unable to remove all the nails, some are still there. Therefore, the wall can't remain the same. It now has scares all over."

"That is what you're doing to people you're hurting with your words. Your abusive and offensive words are the nails while the people you insulted with them are the wall".

When you create enemies for yourself with your hot temper, it be enmity that will last forever.

Therefore, use your words to amend not to destroy. Bear it in mind that words are hurtful and can cause war that you may not be able to prevent.

Don't create enemies for yourself thinking that you know how to talk.

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