[Blind-rollers] Fw: A LESSON IN OPTIMISM

[TYGH HALES]

What a wonderful reminder that attidtude truely is everything. Thank you for sharing that! 
 
> From: DaniSapiro at bellsouth.net
> To: blind-rollers at nfbnet.org
> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:13:40 -0400
> Subject: [Blind-rollers] Fw: A LESSON IN OPTIMISM
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> From: dianesapiro 
> To: stevesapiro ; Zoe Lyski ; ora averett1 ; danisapiro ; Juan Carlos Gil 
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 9:12 AM
> Subject: Fw: A LESSON IN OPTIMISM
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> This is something to think about..........
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> READ THIS!
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> LET IT REALLY SINK IN - THEN CHOOSE. 
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> 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!'
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> He was a natural motivator. 
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> If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation. 
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> Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and asked him, 'I don't get it!' 
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> 'You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?' 
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> 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. 
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> I choose to be in a good mood.' 
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> 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. 
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> 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. 
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> 'Yeah, right, it's not that easy,' I protested. 
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> '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. 
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> You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life.' 
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> 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. 
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> Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. 
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> After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. 
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> I saw him about six months after the accident. 
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> When I asked him how he was, he replied, 'If I were any better, I'd be twins...Wanna see my scars?' 
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> I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place. 
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> '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.' 
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> 'Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?' I asked. 
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> He continued, '...the paramedics were great. 
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> 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.' 
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> 'What did you do?' I asked. 
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> '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'' 
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> Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead.' 
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> 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. 
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> Attitude, after all, is everything.
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> After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. 
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> You have two choices now: 
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> 1. Delete this 
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> 2. Forward it to the people you care about...
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> You know the choice I made. 
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