There was 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 backyard 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 young 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.”
A shipwreck survivor drifted to an uninhabited island. He kept praying, hoping there would be a boat come to rescue him. But two days later, he was still there, he had not seen any boats around.
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He did not know how long he had to stay there until he could be found by boats. So as a last resort, he finally built a simple shack.
One day when he was in the woods finding food for the day, he saw heavy smoke from his shack. He ran to the shack as soon as possible, but still too late, his only place was gone in the fire.
He lost all his hopes, he was sitting by the beach and asked God: “Did I do something wrong? Why did you take my shack away? Does that mean I deserve to die on this deserted island?”
Hours later, a big boat came to this island and rescued him, they said they saw the smoke from this island and they knew it’s an uninhabited island, so that must be a S.O.S from somebody.
One day, the cat fell into a big pit, the pig brought the rope to her, The Cat said , thrown it down piggy. Then the pig threw the whole rope to the cat . The cat was so depressed, she thought he would just drop one side of the rope then pull her up . “Really ? Throw it like that how do you expect to pull me up?” Said the cat. The pig said: “ok so what should I have done ?” The cat said: “you should hold one side of the rope!” The pig said : “got you !” At the same time he jumped into the pit and grabbed one side of the rope said to the cat: “like this ?”
Suddenly all the depression from cat was gong , she started crying and laughing, she felt she was the happiest cat in the world because She has a truly good friend, he maybe not clear what’s happening but he’s staying with her in the mess.
Once upon a time, the frog neighborhood had a climbing competition, the destination was the top of the tall iron tower. There were lots of frogs standing under the tower to watch and discuss, none of them believed any of the competitors could get to the top of the tower.
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“As a frog, to get the top of the tower is impossible!” “We should stay on the ground, we don’t have wings, claiming that height is the most dangerous thing to our frogs!” “Right! see?more frogs falling down….” “It’s really a bad idea to have a frog climbing competition, no frog is going to win, we just waste our time here……” “We are just frogs , the beautiful sky does not belong to us….”
Some of the competitors heard from the spectators, they felt so discouraged, so when the height got higher and higher, more and more frogs fell.
At the end, only one frog kept going up and up, the spectators still believed there’s no way he could get to the top, but he never showed that he was frustrated for doing that . Yes! finally he got to the top of the tower, he won!
When other frogs went to ask him how he made that happen, they found out he was a deaf !
A woman walked outside and saw three old men were sitting in front of her yard. They long white beards looked spiritual and peaceful.
She didn’t think she had met them before, but she was being very nice and asked them if they would like to come in and have something to eat.
An old man stroked his long white beard and introduced theirselvs to the woman: “his name is SUCCESS, and the other one named WEALTH, my name is LOVE, you can’t invite us all, you only can invite one of us.
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The woman went inside and talked to the family, the husband said, of course, invite WEALTH, the woman said, SUCCESS is better, but the young daughter had different option, she wanted to invite LOVE.
After a short discussion, the woman walked outside and told them they want to invite LOVE. The three old men started smiling and said, good choice, now we can all come inside. The woman was confused: but you said I only can invite one.
The old men said together: “ if you invite the other two, we can’t come in together, but you invite love, we will always follow LOVE .”
There was a white bunny, when she had grown up, she didn’t just expect more carrots, she was starting to expect romantic relationships.
There was a gray bunny who cares about the white bunny alot, he always brought lots of carrots to her, but she wasn’t sure if he was the right one for her.
She wanted to enrich her life and find her love, so she said goodbye to him and carried lots of carrots, went to the deep forest.
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The first one she met was a goose, she felt that the goose is so attractive, so they fell in love.
But soon she felt she couldn’t keep up with the goose, when he was flying she had to keep running and always looking up, she was tired and confused if the relationship was right.
One day, the goose said he is leaving, he can’t bear that she can’t fly with him.
The white bunny was so sad, that was her first relationship, she cried and then told herself that means the goose is not the right one.
After the break up, the white bunny met a bear. The bear wasn’t her type, but the bear said because the forest is dangerous to her, so he will stay with her to protect her until she finds her right one.
The bear treated her so well, when the weather got cold, he would put her into the hole in the tree and use his body to block the wind for her, when they didn’t get enough food, he would save his dinner as her breakfast for the second morning….
After a while, the white bunny thought: the bear is really good to me, but I don’t want someone block the wind for me. I want someone who can cuddle with me when it’s cold, and I don’t like his food either….
At the meantime, the bear met a fox. The fox is beautiful, she directly told the bear that she likes him and wants to be with him. The bear told the white bunny: “I don’t like the fox, I still want to be with you.” But one day in the morning when the white bunny woke up, she couldn’t find the bear anywhere, she knew he left with the fox without saying goodbye.
The white bunny started packing to hit the road alone, she found there’s more carrots than before, she thought: finally the bear fingered out what I really like, but he had left. I don’t think he’ll come back to me.
On a rainy night, the white bunny met a wolf, she knew she would get hurt to be with the wolf, but she couldn’t help to fall in love with him, although she had to be cautious all the time.
Yes, she was been hurt in that relationship like she already knew at the very beginning.
Luckily or finally, on another rainy night, the wolf told her:” just get out of my face, I’m tired of you!”
The white bunny packed again, she didn’t have much carrots left. She sat under a big tree and thought: should I keep going or just stay here and enjoy the scenery. I shouldn’t fell in love with the wolf, maybe I shouldn’t had started this forest journey to find my love. I don’t even know what love is….
She reminisced about the past being with the gray bunny, but she was so far away from their old place.She was not sure if she could go back there again.
Suddenly, she heard a rustling noise behind the tree, when she wrapped her head around the tree to check, there’s the gray bunny putting more carrots in her bag….
