The Fence – A story with true meaning

There once was a young boy with a very bad temper.

The boy’s father wanted to teach him a lesson, so he gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper he must hammer a nail into their wooden fence.

On the first day of this lesson, the little boy had driven 37 nails into the fence. He was really mad!

Over the course of the next few weeks, the little boy began to control his temper, so the number of nails that were hammered into the fence dramatically decreased.

It wasn’t long before the little boy discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence.

Then, the day finally came when the little boy didn’t lose his temper even once, and he became so proud of himself, he couldn’t wait to tell his father.

Pleased, his father suggested that he now pull out one nail for each day that he could hold his temper.

Several weeks went by and the day finally came when the young boy was able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

Very gently, the father took his son by the hand and led him to the fence.

“You have done very well, my son,” he smiled, “but look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same.”

The little boy listened carefully as his father continued to speak.

“When you say things in anger, they leave permanent scars just like these. And no matter how many times you say you’re sorry, the wounds will still be there.”

Be careful with YOUR words.

Ever Wondered Why Do Men Have Nipples? Here’s Why.

There seems a logical explanation about why women have nipples – to breastfeed babies. Unlike women’s nipples, men’s can’t feed babies. So why do men have them? There’s a surprising answer to this question.

ALL BABIES IN THE WOMB GROW AS FEMALES – YES EVEN THE BOYS!

As embryos in the womb, males and females have similar tissues and body parts, which is why nipples are present in both sexes. It is the effect of the genes, the Y chromosome and the hormone testosterone that brings about the masculine changes to the embryo.

Females have two X chromosomes, while males have an X and Y. XX fusion results in the child being a female while XY results in the child being a male. But as an embryo, everyone starts out females. It’s that Y chromosome that makes a man a man.

If the embryo is genetically male with a Y chromosome present, after six weeks it begins to develop the male characteristics, when a special part of the Y chromosome, called the SRY gene, gets activated. This initiates the development of the male parts. It is then that the male and females start to differentiate. But nipples start to develop before this differentiation occurs – at about five and a half weeks. So even though the embryo becomes male, it is still left with nipples and some breast tissue.

In simple words, men have nipples because they already had them before they became male.