Two Choices

WARNING: It's gonna be another emo rant , so bare with me ... =D

Looking back at history is never a good sight. It may be bad, it may be sweet , it may be a walk in the park or it may just be another fuck up day, regardless of whatever the outcome is , the reality of it; there's nothing that you can do to change what's already been done.
History has taken its toll, you have to live with it. It's a simple rule that you have to obey to move on.

On Tuesday, a dear friend of mine was on a major low, a defenceless state where he was so vulnerable that he could just give up on everything. I felt him. I knew what he had gone through because i went through it before. The mind plays trick on ya all the time. You can't think straight, you lose all your senses. You made a wall so thick , not even a nuclear bomb could penetrate. Isolating from the real world seems like an option. An option to resolve the pain, the misery and the suffering that you have to go through ALONE. You thought that sharing your problems will only burden others , will make things worst instead of solving it.

That my friend, is WRONG!

It's not ok to feel that way. Never in this lifetime.

You know the wall that you built? Please leave a hole big enough for us to come in. We came knocking on the wall when we heard your problems. We came unprepared just like what hit you.
No harm letting us in and share whats within the wall. It's ok, everything WILL be alright.
Friends is all about lifting you up again and hoping that you would stand on your feet once more.
We don't want to see you in that state, it breaks our heart to see a different person that we used to hang out with. It ain't easy to work things out the way we want it to be, but sometimes you just have to let things go to get things back. You set a bird free, another bird might just appear again the very next day. *ok it's a bad example i know =.=" * Sounds like a deja vu to me.

Group hug everybody.....*hugs* funny when oak said this but noone actually did it. =P

Glad you are alright now , and hope to see you more in our dota sessions...


To end the rant for today, i got something from my work mail and i would love to share it with you guys; *if you guys read it before READ it again. *


You Have Two Choices

Jerry is the manager of a restaurant . He is always in a good mood.
When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would always reply:
"If i were any better, i would be twins!"
Many of the waiters at his restaurant quit their jobs when he changed jobs,
so they could follow him around from restaurant to restaurant.

Why?

Because Jerry was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was always there telling him 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, No one can be a positive person all the time. How do you do it?"

Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, I have two choices today. I can choose to be in a good mood or I can choose to be in a bad mood.
I always choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be victim or I can choose to learn from it. I always 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 always choose the positive side of life."


"But it's not always 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.
It'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 restaurant business.
He left the back door of his restaurant open
And then in the morning, he was robbed by three armed men.

While Jerry trying to open the safe box, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination.
The robbers panicked and shot him.

Luckily, Jerry was found quickly and rushed to the hospital.

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. Want to 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, after they shot me, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or could choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared" 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 expression 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 nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything."

'Yes,' to bullets, I replied.

Over their laughter, I told them: "I am choosing to live. Please 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 you have the choice to either 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 can take care of that, everything else in life becomes much easier.


The end.

I know its a bit long, so dont be a lazy bum, just read it ... and to the Jerry i know, this story so happen to have your name on it and i'm too lazy too change it. So, no hard feelings, you are a hero in the story...