Choices

Jerry was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how was he doing, he would reply

“if there any better, I would be twins”.

 He was natural motivator.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I ask 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 my self, ‘Jerry you have two choices today. You can be in a bad mood or to be In the good mood?’ I choose to be in the good mood. 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 people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. It’s your choice how you live life”.

After several years later. I heard that Jerry was on surgery and weeks of intensive care.

He says “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 choose to life”

“Weren’t you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked.

“What did you do?” I asked.

“Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting question at me” He said.

“She asked if I was allergic to anything ‘Yes’ I replied. The doctors and nurses stop working as they waited for me reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, ‘Bullets!’ over their laughter, I told them ‘ I am choosing to live, Operate on me if I am alive, not dead.”

Jerry was lived, thanks to the skill of his doctor, but also because of his amazing atitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choices to live fully. Atitude, after all, is everything.