Being a listener

There's an inspirational story that i would like to share...
There was once 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 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."



No matter in what kind of circumstances, we should face our daily life stoically.
It might be quite embarrassing when we get collided with something that annoyed us much,
but think of the better way of it.
Just for an example, when you faced the music from certain person,
don't just think of what you had done was right and the stand still your ground in an over formidable way.
Try to accept what the others says, it might be helpful, though.
I do believe that, every opinions from the others do have the perspective on their own,
so, don't hesitate much and let you mind widen by the perspective of the others.
Remain what you think is good enough and filter those which doesn't sense much.
The doorway to a better life doesn't reach from far away if you persist on doing it. :]