你有两个选择 We Have Two Choices

Martin

　　Jerry是美国一家餐厅的经理，他总是有好心情。当别人问他最近过得如何，他总是有好消息可以说。他总是回答：『如果我再过得好一些，

　　我就比双胞胎还幸运啰！』

　　当他换工作的时候，许多服务生都跟着他从这家餐厅换到另一家。

　　为什么呢？因为Jerry是个天生的激励者。如果有某位员工今天运气不好，Jerry总是适时地告诉那位员工往好的方面想。

　　看到这样的情境，真的让我很好奇，所以有一天我到Jerry那儿问他：『我不懂，没有人能够老是那样地积极乐观，你是怎么办到的？』

　　Jerry回答：『每天早上我起来告诉自己：我今天有两种选择，我可以选择好心情，或者我可以选择坏心情。即使有不好的事发生，我可以

　　选择做个受害者，或是选择从中学习，我总是选择从中学习。每当有人跑来跟我抱怨，我可以选择接受抱怨或者指出生命的光明面，我总是选择

　　生命的光明面。』

　　但并不是每件事都那么容易啊！

　　『的确如此。』Jerry也这样说，『生命就是一连串的选择，每个状况都是一个选择，你选择如何回应，你选择人们如何影响你的心情你选

　　择处于好心情或是坏心情你选择如何过你的生活。』

　　数年后，有一天，我听到Jerry意外地做了一件你绝想不到的事。

　　有一天他忘记关上餐厅的后门。结果早上，三个武装歹徒闯入抢劫。他们要?#123*+!@$%&*~Jerry打开保险箱，但由于过度紧张，Jerry弄错

　　了一个号码，造成抢匪的惊慌，开枪射击Jerry。幸运地，Jerry很快地被邻居发现，紧急送到医院抢救。经过18小时的外科手术以及密集照顾，

　　Jerry终于出院了，还有块子弹留在他身上……

　　事件发生6个月之后，我遇到Jerry，我问他最近怎么样。

　　他回答：『如果我再过得好一些，我就比双胞胎还幸运了。要看看我的伤痕吗？』

　　我婉拒了，但我问他当抢匪闯入的时候，他的心路历程。

　　Jerry答道：『我第一件想到的事情是我应该锁后门的，当他们击中我之后，我躺在地板上，还记得我有2个选择：『我可以选择生，或选择

　　死。我选择活下去』

　　『你不害怕吗？』

　　Jerry继续说：『医护人员真了不起，他们一直告诉我没事，放心。』

　　但是当他们将我推入紧急手术间的路上，我看到医生跟护士脸上忧虑的神情，我真的被吓到了。

　　他们的眼好像写着：他已经是个死人了，我知道我需要采取行动。

　　『当时你做了什么？』

　　Jerry说：嗯！当时有个硕大的护士用吼叫的音量问我一个问题：『她问我是否会对什么东西过敏。』

　　我回答：『有』。

　　这时医生跟护士都停下来等待我的回答。

　　我深深地吸了一口气

　　接着喊：『子弹！』

　　听他们笑完之后。

　　我告诉他们：我现在选择活下去，请把我当作一个活生生的人来开刀，不是一个活死人。

　　Jerry能活下去当然要归功于医生的精湛医术，但同时也由于他令人惊异的态度。

　　我从他身上学到：每天你都能选择享受你的生命，或是憎恨它。这是唯一一件真正属于你的权利，没有人能够控制或夺去的东西。就是你的

　　态度，如果你能时时注意这些愉快的事情，你就会因此而变得心情愉快。

　　现在你有两个选择：

　　1、你可以遗忘这故事

　　2、将这传递给你关心的人

　　我选择了2

　　希望你也是如此！

Martin

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had 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 unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed 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 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! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, 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," 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. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life." I reflected on what Jerry said.

Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. 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 relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. 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. Wanna 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, as I lay on the floor, 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. 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, burly 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. 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 we have the choice to live fully.

Attitude, after all, is everything.