One day a young man was standing in the middle of the town proclaiming that he had the most beautiful heart in the whole valley.

A large crowd gathered and they all admired his heart for it was perfect. There was not a mark or a flaw in it. Yes, they all agreed it truly was the most beautiful heart they had ever seen. The young man was very proud and boasted more loudly about his beautiful heart.

Suddenly, an old man appeared at the front of the crowd and said, “Why your heart is not nearly as beautiful as mine.” The crowd and the young man looked at the old man’s heart. It was beating strongly, but full of scars, it had places where pieces had been removed and other pieces put in, but they didn’t fit quite right and there were several jagged edges. In fact, in some places there were deep gouges where whole pieces missing.

The people stared. How can he say his heart is more beautiful?? they thought. The young man looked at the old man’s heart and saw its state and laughed. “You must be joking,” he said. “Compare your heart with mine, mine is perfect and yours is a mess of scars and tears.”

“Yes,” said the old man, “Yours is perfect looking but I would never trade with you. You see, every scar represents a person to whom I have given my love – I tear out a piece of my heart and give it to them, and often they give me a piece of their heart which fits into the empty place in my heart, but because the pieces aren’t exact, I have some rough edges, which I cherish, because they remind me of the love we shared. Sometimes I have given pieces of my heart away, and the other person hasn’t returned a piece of his heart to me. These are the empty gouges – giving love is taking a chance. Although these gouges are painful, they stay open, reminding me of the love I have for these people too, and I hope someday they may return and fill the space I have waiting. So now do you see what true beauty is?”

The young man stood silently with tears running down his cheeks. He walked up to the old man, reached into his perfect young and beautiful heart, and ripped a piece out. He offered it to the old man with trembling hands.

The old man took his offering, placed it in his heart and then took a piece from his old scarred heart and placed it in the wound in the young man’s heart. It fit, but not perfectly, as there were some jagged edges.

The young man looked at his heart, not perfect anymore but more beautiful than ever, since love from the old man’s heart flowed into his.

They embraced and walked away side by side.

But one thing about the boy annoyed him.The child used harsh words frequently with all the people,which made the child to left alone by all.

So,the father decided to teach him what the harsh words results in.Then he called his son and asked him to hit a nail into the wall when ever he hurts any person by using harsh words and by the end of the day remove them.

Child was happy happy with the task given by his father.The child used to hit almost 30 to 40 nails in the starting but day by day the count was decreasing to 10…..8……3…..and finally he was tired of hitting nails into the wall and then removing them.

At last one day the child made a zero count and informed his father about his achievement proudly.His father took him to the wall and asked him what you can see .His son replied “no dad today there are no nails on the wall”.

Fine you could see only the absence of nails but what about the holes you made on the wall.You could remove the nails but you couldn’t fill the holes in the wall.in the same way you can take back your harsh words that had been used on others but you couldn’t heal the broken hearts.

So don’t hurt any one by your harsh words.Your words reflects your attitude.So buildup your attitude and don’t loose any one in your life because each friend is a gift of heaven for you…………