afterchoices 英语散文阅读:Life is full of choices 选择积极地生活

英语散文阅读:Life is full of choices 选择积极地生活  

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 positive all the time. How do you do it?"
Michael replied
each morning I wake up and say to myself 'Mike
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 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 isn't 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 will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line is: It's your choice how you live life. " I reflected on what Michael said.
Soon thereafter
I left the big enterprise that I had worked in for years to start my own business. We lost touch
but I often though about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later
I heard Michael was involved in a serious accident
falling off 60 feet from a munications tower.
After l8 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 ins. Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds
but 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-born daughter
" Michael replied. "Then
as I lay on the ground
remembered 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. Michael continued
" the paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the operation room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses
I got really scared. In their eyes
l 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 me if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes
' I said. 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'm 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 1eamed from him that every day we have a choice to live fully. Attitude is everything.
迈克尔总是乐呵呵的，你总能听到他说些积极上进的话。他似乎生来就积极进取。他这样告诉他的员工：“每天早晨醒来，我对自己说，迈克尔，今天你有两种选择，选择心情愉快，选择心情恶劣，我选择心情愉快；有不愉快的事情发生，选择成为一个牺牲品，或是选择从中吸取教训，我选择吸取教训。”
迈克尔从60英尺的大楼上摔下，却活了下来，当有人问及他当时的想法，他是这样回答的：“我告诉我的手术医生，‘我选择活着，我愿意做任何手术。’”
选择接受生活的积极面也许是人生中最为明智的选择，其实，每个人都有机会充实、健康的活着，关键取决于你的人生态度。