A very good story

Jerry is the manager of a restaurant in America. He
is always in a
5 r# k7 @! H. z1 P; l4 hgood mood and always has something positive to say.
When someone would ask
- ?4 o0 p5 `( @$ O9 I' Qhim how he was doing, he would always reply, "If I
were any  better, I
would be twins!"
' T2 ^6 v6 w% `2 C( j# ^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
) M2 M0 w! h$ H9 w! Ohis attitude.
He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having
) G2 B1 m2 x+ o8 r& U) ]a bad day, Jerry
$ I% n+ n) y6 M) vwas always here, telling the employee how to look on
the positive side
! p+ d- [- E+ J& i- d# i* q- Vof the situation.
- ~. L! w1 j/ V. s; vSeeing this style really made me curious, so one day I
went up to Jerry
and asked him, "I don't get it!
3 `  t( y, e. S8 i8 yNo one can be a positive person all of the time. How
5 z6 u* a" x: K) ~# ]0 e) ldo you do it?"
Jerry replied,
- q) @" b; b/ t- l0 g+ `"Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two
- c3 B$ j( q! O' U* D8 P6 p$ cchoices today. I
can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be
) U- Q0 d$ g) _. Pin 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
. M4 \" |0 g6 g* Rchoose to learn from it. I always choose to learn from
, z1 ^! I: R3 K) yit. Every time
someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to
: l) F- o! {/ I% F$ V  w) K* u0 iaccept their
complaining or I can point out the positive side of
% I  }4 b2 W( Olife. I always
! K1 t+ q7 H" c9 p: }" ]choose the positive side of life."
3 d, Z4 |/ p# _4 y0 D"But it's not always that easy," I protested.
"Yes, it is," Jerry said "Life is all about choices.
7 \, d  k, s/ t4 `0 x$ A7 ^, XWhen you cut away all the junk, every situation is a
7 R' U0 U7 O  W7 [# Jchoice. You choose
how you react to situations. You choose how people
5 G( b0 F' L' x& v7 \will affect your
: D- _# ^+ W3 U) A0 M: Q4 Ymood. You choose to be  in a good mood or bad mood.
  T8 o! u5 K, mIt'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
4 M' o  m" N& f. r" Drestaurant business: left the back door of his
0 Y  N+ i$ o" r! Q  prestaurant 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.

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Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the
- X/ g. E0 [$ v7 \: Jhospital. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of
intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital
) h. @3 k  s6 }. K4 H) \2 Twith 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,
8 D' [3 H! `8 G/ Gbut did ask him what had gone through his mind as
the robbery took place.

" O! S5 p+ m+ {% J/ `6 t0 h3 |"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
( ]1 K" i2 E; Plive or choose to die. I chose to live."

* X5 ~: e5 h5 C8 g2 Q"Weren't you scared?" I asked. Jerry continued, "The
paramedics were great. They kept telling me. I was
; _4 j4 Q3 W& P/ N: z  K1 o6 Tgoing to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the
4 T+ x! m7 _2 s+ l9 [Emergency Room and I saw the expressions on the
/ Z  N3 G$ U" }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
  L" q9 \; q* A# Z5 [1 Bnurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She
asked if I was allergic to anything."
( Z9 G5 @7 }0 s9 i- {
7 P5 ?; y6 v- f; A4 [
( Q. @5 Q7 \" {6 ~  q'Yes,' I replied. The doctors and nurses stopped
working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep
, L- g/ X' |) [9 D" @" _0 ~  breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I
8 a% k% y, O$ z, Y1 r
told them, 'I am choosing to live. Please operate on
6 B( t4 q/ Y, w% j: ame as if I am alive, not dead'."
Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but
. T+ ~/ ^3 r% Y& Qalso because of his amazing attitude. I learned from
him that every day you have the choice to either
4 D) v1 j" R  [4 K; s, J% ?5 |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
6 ]5 P* ^& u' @7 [! Fcan take care of that, everything else in life
becomes much easier.

Now you have two choices to make:
" H2 `, B2 v" ]! P1. You can just close the browser now OR

2. You can forward it to someone you care about.
6 R6 a1 p3 j7 |- {  MI hope you will choose #2. I did.
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有个人爱你

要是再有几个问题的话就是一个练习呀~~~

DNA

下次要发个短小精悍的
7 \) M- T2 U9 U' l& e向我这么有耐性看的可是没有几个了。
English is very interesting!
I like English.

ppppp

Good!~~~Good!~~~

风吹沙地

If I were any  better, I would be twins!"
what's the meaning?

ppppp

意思是———我好的不能再好了

壮志凌云

字太小了吧 看起来累  有点

风吹沙地

以下是引用ppppp在2003-12-25 20:02:00的发言：
意思是———我好的不能再好了

o, I know

too long to read
2 _- j( t6 |5 i; q1 y. HI felt sorry
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指间泪沙

sorry i am english very bad