[nukkad] FW: Two choices. A bit long But a good read.

[Nikhil Shah/MUK/SEEPZ <nikhils@meghdoot.mastek.com>]

		ATTITUDE IS EVERYTHING

>                           By Francie Baltazar-Schwartz
> 
>           Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate.
>      He was always in a good mood and always had something
>      positive to say.  When someone would ask him how he was
>      doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
>           He was a unique manager because he had several waiters
>      who had  followed him around from restaurant  to restaurant.
>      The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his
>      attitude. He was a natural  motivator. If an employee was
>      having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee
>      how to look on the positive side of the situation.
>          Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day
>      I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't
>      be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
>      Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself,
>      Jerry, you have two choices  today.  You can choose to be
>      in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.'
>      I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad
>      happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to
>      learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone
>      comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their
>      complaining or I can point out the positive side of life.
>      I choose the positive side of life."
>         "Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
>       "Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When
>      you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice.
>      You choose how you react to situations. You choose how
>      people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good
>      mood or bad mood. The bottom line:  It's your choice
>      how you live life."
>          I reflected on what Jerry said.  Soon thereafter,
>      I left the restaurant industry to start my own business.
>      We lost touch, but often  thought about him when I made
>      a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years
>      later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never
>      supposed to do in a restaurant business:  he left the back
>      door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by
>      three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand,
>      shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination.
>      The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found
>      relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.
>      After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care,
>      Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the
>      bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after
> the
>      accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were
>      any better, I'd be twins.  Wanna see my scars?"
>         I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had
>      gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "The first
>      thing that went through my mind was that I should have
>      locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the
>      floor, I remembered that I had two choices:  I could choose
>      to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live.
>         "Weren't you scared?  Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.
>         Jerry continued,  "The paramedics were great.  They kept
>      telling me I was going to be  fine. But when they wheeled me
>      into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the
>      faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their
>      eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man. " I knew I needed to take
> action."
>         "What did you do?" I asked.
>          "Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions
>      at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything.
>      'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped working
>      as they waited for my reply...  I took a deep breath and
>      yelled, 'Bullets!'   Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am
>      choosing to live.  Operate on me as if I am alive,
>      not dead."
>          Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also
>      because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that
>      every day we have the  choice to live fully.  Attitude,
>      after all, is everything.
> 
>         You have 2 choices now:
>          1. save or delete this mail from your mail box.
>          2. forward it to those you care about and choose to pass
> this on
> 
>          Hope you will choose choice 2.
> 

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