An Angry Boy

A boy had a very bad temper. One day, his father gave him a box of stickers and told him to place a sticker on the wall of his room every time he lost his temper. On the first day, he placed about forty stickers. 

The next day, it was less, and so it continued. The boy thought it was easier to control anger than to get furious and start putting stickers. One day the boy did not lose his temper even once and, happily, told his father. 

He had finally managed to control his bad temper. His father, very satisfied and pleased, then suggested that for each day he controlled his anger take out a sticker from the wall. 

Days passed and the boy told his father that he had removed all the stickers from the wall. Then the father went with him to his room and said: "Look, son. You have worked hard to stick and remove the stickers from the wall, but look at the marks left”. 

That wall will never be the same. When you say or do something with bad temper, you leave a scar, like these marks in the wall. You may ask for forgiveness, but you will know that the wounds are difficult to heal. 

His father's words and his experience with stickers, made the boy think about the consequences of bad temper.