Your choice (something I think everyone should read)

Read this. Really let it sink in. Then choose.

Michael 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!"
He was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, Michael was 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 Michael and asked him, "I don't get it!
You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
Michael 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," Michael 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.
You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life."
I reflected on what Michael 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.
Several years later, I heard that Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.
I saw Michael about six months after the accident.
When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins Wanna see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my soon-to-be born daughter," Michael 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.
Michael continued, "..the paramedics were great.
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."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Michael "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'."
Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."
Michael 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.
Attitude, after all, is everything.
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

That's a great story and I apploud all of you that can be that strong. Just please understand that some do not have that strength. We really need to work with them to help them gain that strength, and never let them drop.

My boyfriend has helped me find that strength within myself, and I can not thank him enough. I know live as if I'm going to die tomorrow and things are great. I still have my down times, but he is right there to push me back up to the top.

Good luck to all.

You do have the power to choice your own life, and to choice what happens from day to day, but like I was saying...some are to weak and know of nothing else. You have to keep an open mind when it comes to dealing with people like some of this site. You can explain this story to them till your blue in the face, but they still wont understand because they just don't have the will to.

Thank you so much for posting that. I hope every 'cutter' comes and reads this and realizes that cutting has been their choice, and they chose the bad thing. Thank you.

This has helped me very much and I hope it can do so for others. Every time I feel like cutting I read it.

Oh what a positive post!!! Thanks for sharing that. It can truly benefit alot of people on this site!

OMG that made tears well in my eyes. That is such a beautiful story!! Thank you for posting this, it'll definitely help me out!!! I hope it helps others too! Thank you xxxxxx

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Wow awesome!