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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 ins!"
　　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 o 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 es to me plaining
I can choose to accept their plaining 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 I 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(保险柜)
his hand
shaking from nervousness
slipped off (忘记，遗漏)the bination (开启号码锁的号码组合)。 The robbers panicked and shot him.
　　Luckily
Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma (创伤，外伤)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 ins. Wanna see my scars(伤疤)?" 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 o 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 (护理人员)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 (魁梧的，结实的)nurse shouting questions at me
" said Jerry.
　　"She asked if I was allergic (过敏的)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.