Life is a choice….

I received this email today, I had to share it… if anyone knows who wrote this, let me now, I would love to give credit!

To those who mean so much
John is  the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood and always  has 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 natural motivator.

If  an employee was having a bad day, John 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 and asked him, ‘I  don’t get it!

You  can’t be a positive person all of the time How do you do it?’

He  replied, ‘Each morning I wake up and say to myself, 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,’ he 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 affect your mood. You  choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It’s your choice  how you live your life.’

I  reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several  years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling  some 60 feet from a communications tower.
After  18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the  hospital with rods placed in his back. I  saw him 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 I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.

‘The  first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be  born daughter,’ he replied. ‘Then, as I lay on the ground, 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

He  continued, ‘..the paramedics were great. They  kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the  ER 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 John.’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, ‘Gravity”

Over  their laughter, I told them, ‘I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I  am alive, not dead.’

He  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 ..

After  all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Written by Nan Akasha


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