You know what? I actually enjoyed the approach I took last time. Writing a story with a moral behind it, I think it is more likely for you to remember the post and more likely for you to remember it in a situation. Maybe… anyway, here it goes!
“A guy that you’d love to hate” that’s what people used to say about Jerry because he always had a positive attitude about everything in life. Every situation that you might think would make a person flip, always made him see the good side of it, and if there were no good side to it, he’d make one! Every time someone would ask him “How are you doing?” he would answer, “If I were any better, I’d be a twin!”. He was one of the best managers to his employees, that even when he moved from one restaurant to another, the waiters would blindly follow him to the place he used to manage. Always motivated them and told them what they had to hear. One day at his new job, Jerry did something that was never meant to be done in the restaurant business… keeping the backdoor open. Next morning, 3-armed robbers held him at gunpoint, they shot him. 6 months later, he was released from the hospital, met with his friends. He was asked, “Weren’t you scared?” “Well, at first I regretted leaving the backdoor open, then when I was laying there the paramedics kept telling me that I’ll be okay, but when I was rushed to the emergency room, the look the doctors had on their faces scared me. It was a look you usually give a dying man. So the doctors asked me, “are you allergic to something?” I replied, “yes” they stopped working and waiting for me to answer… I calmly said “bullets! So please operate on me as a man who is going to continue living, not a person who is about to die!””
Every morning you wake up, and you get to choose whether to have a good morning, or a bad one. You’re not in the best situation, you get to choose… whether you want to make the best out of it or be the victim. When someone complains to you, you can either choose to accept their complaining or point out the good in the same area. Bottom line, it’s your life and you choose how to live it or what affects it!