stories that help

gayteen · stories that help

since I first read this I have been trying to change the way I live for the better so I hope it helps people see that you can live a good life and that it is up to you. this was sent to me and I have read it out to a lot of people who have all got a copy of it. hope you like it. please take time to read

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 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 made me curious, so one day I went up to him and said, “I don’t get 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 can choose how you react to a situation.
you choose how people affect your mood.
you choose to be in a good mood or a bad mood. the bottom line: it’s your choice how you live your life.”
I reflected on what he said. Soon after, 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 hospital with rods placed in his back.
I was him about six months after the accident.
When I asked him how he was, he replied, “if I were any better, I would be twins…wanna see my scars?”
I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.
“the first thing that went through my head 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 saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In there 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 and waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled “Gravity”. Over there laughter, I told them, “I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.”
He lived, thanks to the skills 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.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, as tomorrow will wory about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
After all today is the tomorrow you were worried about yesterday.

Grog3471

wow.. thats amazing! much better than what i could come up with. about 1/4 way through it really got to me, it was an inspiring read.

gayteen

i put it in because i was really a stuck-up jerk before i read it. it was sent as an E-mail from a friend. and now i am a lot happier