A man was putting up family pictures on the newly painted walls of
his house. He was using nails and a hammer in order to hang the picture
frames. In the process, some nails got bent and fell down on the floor.
The man’s 4 yr old daughter was
playing near by. She wanted to play with her dad and called out to him.
However the man was busy with framing the pictures, and so ignored her
calls and finally asked her to go outside and play with her brother. The
girl saw the nails lying on the floor. So she picked up a few nails and
went out to play along with her brother.
After a while the son came running in and told his dad ~ that the girl was scratching the newly purchased car with the nails.
The man ran outside and in a fit of
rage, the furious Man took his child’s hand & hit it many times, not
realizing he was using the hammer, which was in his hand. With blood
all over her hands, the girl was rushed to a nearby hospital.
The girl underwent an emergency
operation. After a while, When the child saw her father in the hospital,
with painful eyes she said : “Dad, I am so sorry, that I damaged your
car “. With tears in her eyes, She
continued looking at her hand and asked~ ‘Dad – When will I get back
my fingers? I promise that I will never ever damage your car again’.
At the hospital, The child had lost all her fingers due to multiple fractures.
The
man was so hurt and speechless, that he couldn’t stop sobbing and
crying for hours. The girl had lost her fingers forever, because of his
uncontrolled anger and stupid action.
He went back to the car and kicked it
many times. Devastated by his own actions, sitting in front of the car
he looked at the scratches, His daughter had written ‘LOVE YOU DAD’.
Moral: Don’t do something permanently stupid just because you are temporarily upset. If you are patient in one moment of rage
, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow… Remember, Anger is an acid
that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to
anything on which it is poured. Anger and Love have no limit.
Always remember that “Things are
to be used and people are to be loved”. But the problem in today’s
world is that “People are being used & Things are being loved”.
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