khamsin 发表于 2006-12-14 05:23:00

[转帖]Everyone has a choice!!!

<font face="Tahoma">We can choose!!! Even though God knows exactly what your choice will be, he is waiting for you to be mature enough one day, so that you can be able to make a good positive choice, whenever you face a choice...</font><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">Joshua</span></font><font face="Tahoma" color="#000080" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">
                                                </span></font><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good <br/>mood and always has something positive to say. When someone would <br/>ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I <br/>would be twins!"</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">He was a natural motivator.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">If an employee was having a bad day, Joshua</span></font><font face="Tahoma" color="#000080" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">
                                                </span></font><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">was there telling the <br/>employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.<br/>Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and <br/>asked him, "I don't get it!<br/>You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two <br/>choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can <br/>choose to be in a bad mood.<br/>I choose to be in a good mood."</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I <br/>can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept <br/>their complaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I <br/>choose the positive side of life.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.<br/>"Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away <br/>all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react <br/>to situations. You choose how people affect your mood.<br/>You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's <br/>your choice how you live your life."</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower <br/>Industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often <br/>thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of <br/>reacting to it.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious <br/>accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.<br/>After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was <br/>released from the hospital with rods placed in his back.<br/>I saw him about six months after the accident.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd <br/>be twins...Wanna see my scars?"<br/>I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone <br/>through his mind as the accident took place.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of my <br/>soon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the <br/>ground, I remembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live <br/>or...I could choose to die. I chose to live."</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.<br/>He continued, "..the paramedics were great.<br/>They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled <br/>me into the ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors <br/>and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead <br/>man'. I knew I needed to take action."<br/>Dear Friends hope u like this </span></font><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial;"></span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Arial;">&nbsp;</span></font></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">"What did you do?" I asked.<br/>"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said <br/>Joshua . "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes, I replied.' <br/>The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. <br/>I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Gravity'."<br/>Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on <br/>me as if I am alive, not dead."<br/>He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of <br/>his amazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have <br/>the choice to live fully.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">Attitude, after all, is everything .</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 14pt;"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about <br/>itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own." Matthew 6:34.</span></font></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Tahoma" color="#0000ff" size="4"><span lang="EN-US" style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma;">After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.<br/>So make a choice to live for Jesus joyfully, for He is a joyful God who desires you to be happy…</span></font></p>

ashleyli 发表于 2007-6-4 20:17:00

Choice is an illusion.

纳兰 发表于 2007-7-4 20:40:00

<p>I agree with the essay! </p><p>Life is definitely all about choices. Optimistic choices make the world more beautiful.</p><p>3 Gucci bags:renminbi 20,000</p><p>2 Porsche 911s:renminbi 5,000,000</p><p>Way to Heaven:Priceless.</p><p>Jesus Christ has paid it all.</p><p>O Lord ...how priceless is your unfailing love.Psalm 36:7</p>

khamsin 发表于 2008-7-8 15:39:00

i didn't even remember i ever post this, but it's good, it's good reminder especially now

娇气 发表于 2008-9-14 11:04:00

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