标题: 生活充满了选择 [打印本页] 作者: 飞雪寒冰 时间: 2008-7-13 18:48 标题: 生活充满了选择 Life is all about choices 生活充满选择
Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a goodmood and always has something positive to say. When someone would askhim how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I’d betwins!” He was a natural motivator.
Ifan employee was having a bad day, Michael was there telling theemployee how to look on the positive side of the situation. Seeing thisstyle really made me curious, so one day I went up to Michael and askedhim, "I don' t get it. You can' t be positive all the time. How do youdo it?"
Michael replied, each morningI wake up and say to myself 'Mike, you have two choices today. You canchoose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.' Ichoose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I canchoose to be a victim or choose to learn from it. I choose to learnfrom it. Every time someone comes to me complaining I can choose toaccept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life.I choose the positive side of life.
"Yeah, right. It isn't that easy." I protested.
"Yes it is, " Michael said. "Life is all about choices. When you cutaway all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how youreact to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. Youchoose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line is: It's yourchoice how you live life. " I reflected on what Michael said.
Soon thereafter, I left the big enterprise that I had worked in foryears to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often though abouthim when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Severalyears later, I heard Michael was involved in a serious accident,falling off 60 feet from a communications tower.
After l8 hours of surgery, and weeks of intensive care, Michael wasreleased from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michaelabout six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, hereplied, "If I were any better, I’d be twins. Wanna see my scars?" Ideclined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through hismind as the accident took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was the well being of mysoon-to-born daughter," Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground,remembered I had two choices: I could choose to live or I could chooseto die. I chose to live." "Weren’t you scared? Did you loseconsciousness?" I asked. Michael continued, "... the paramedics weregreat. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when theywheeled me into the operation room and I saw the expressions on thefaces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, lread 'He's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action." "What did youdo?" I asked. "Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions atme” said Michael. "She asked me if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,’ Isaid. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for myreply. I took a deep breath and yelled", ‘Gravity’” Over theirlaughter, I told them, 'I'm choosing to live. Operate on me as if I amalive, not dead'."
Michael lived,thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazingattitude. I 1eamed from him that every day we have a choice to livefully. Attitude is everything.作者: 飞雪寒冰 时间: 2008-7-13 18:50
迈克尔是那种你真想恨一恨的家伙，他总是乐呵呵的，总是说些积极上进的话。如果有人问他近况如何，他会这样回答：“如果我还能再好，我就成双胞胎了！”他生来就会让人积极进取。
迈克尔活了下来，这要感谢他那些医生的高明医术，但也要归功于他那令人赞叹的态度。我从他那里学到了我们每天都有机会充实地活着，关键是态度。作者: 高贵的懒猫. 时间: 2008-7-13 23:47
的确，生活留给我们的是选择题，命运只是选项，最终的决定权还是掌握在自己手里作者: neasurf 时间: 2008-7-23 15:29
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I had worked in foryears to start my own business作者: lmno842 时间: 2008-7-31 18:50
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