cool story

November 9, 2004

If anyone has been wondering where I have been, these last 2 days. I was here but I was helping out by taken care of a very sick Katelin, she is running a fever of 103. took her to the doctor this morning and she has a sinus infection. Her Dad has been working graveyard, which means for him 6pm to 6am. He just came and picked her up she started crying she didn't want to leave, I felt bad for Dean, but he got her quieted down by saying she can lay with Daddy on Daddy and Mommie's bed and watch a dvd of SpongeBob square pants.

Okay I know some of you have heard this Grandma bragging but I telling this to the people I haven't e-mailed yet. When took her to the doctors she saw another doctor and he asked how old Katelin was and she said she will be 2 on Dec 27th. asked why and he told her that she is talking at a 3 year olds level. she even said Thank you doctor, he told her she was very welcome.

Jerry is the manager of a restaurant in South Philly.

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 always reply, "If I were

any better, I would be twins!"

Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs,

so they could follow 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 always 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! No

one can be a positive person all the time. How do you

do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say

to myself, I have two choices today,

I can choose to be in a good mood

or I can choose to be in a bad mood.

I always 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 always 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 always choose the positive side of life."

"But it's not always 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.

It's your choice how you live your life."

Several years later, I heard that Jerry accidentally

did something you are never supposed to do in the

restaurant business: he left the back door of his

restaurant open one morning and was robbed by three armed men. 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 quickly and rushed to the hospital. 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. Want to 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, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had

two choices: I could choose to live or choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared?" 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

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. Please 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 you have the choice to

either enjoy your life or to hate it. The only thing that is truly

yours-that no one can control or take from you-is your attitude, so if you

can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.

Now you have two choices to make:

1. You can just close the browser now and leave this message where it

is OR

2. You can forward it and still keep in touch with

your friends.

I hope you will choose #2. I did because you are my friend

November 9, 2004

I love that story...I agree totally with that theory...thanks for sharing...and sorry to hear katelin is sick...hopefully she will start feeling better soon...Hope your pain is down and have a great day..hugs..Ginny wrote: