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Jery is a restaurant manager. He always is in a good mood .When he is asked how he maintains himself  in a good mood, he usually answers: “If I was a bit better, I would be a twin”.

When he changes his work place, his colleagues leave their works to go with him to another restaurant. Why? because Jery is a person who insert spirit essentially.

If a clerk has a bad day, Jery is always there to say how to look at the situation optimistically.

His manners really encouraged my curiousness, so a day i went and asked him: I can't figure out, nobody can be always pessimistic, how do you do that." every morning i wake up" he replied, i tell myself: I have 2 choices today. I can be in a good mood or in a bad mood. I always choose good mood.

Whenever there is a bad happening i can choose the sacrifice role or choose to learn from that event.

When a person comes to me to complain, i choose to accept his complaint or notice the positive side of life.

I protested : but it isn’t always so simple. “It is not” he replied, the whole life is to choose. When you put additional & encumbrance subjects away, each situation is the one to choose & decide .

You, can choose how react to the situations, you do choose how people affect your mood. You do choose to be in a good or bad mood & it’s your choice how to live.

Some years later,

I was informed that jery had a bad happening. He had left back door opened, &  next morning, he faced to 3 stealers. What did they want? While he was opening the safe, trembled and lost his stasis cause of getting nerves. The stealers shot him jittery.luckily Jery was found quickly ans was sent to a hospital.After having 18 hours surgery & weeks in ICU ward, he released from hospital.I saw him after 6 months of that event while he still had some parts of bullets in his body. When i asked him how he was, ha replied: “If I was a bit better, I would be a twin”. Would u like to see the scars of the bullets? I refused to see the scars , but asked him , what was in his head while the theft happened.

The first thing passed through my mind,he replied, was that i should have locked the back door.Then , after they shot me,and i was on the floor, I remembered I had 2 choices: i could choose to stay alive, or be dead. I choose to stay alive.I asked if he was afraid. He said: Intern cadre were excellent. They told me i would be ok. But i was really scared when they were taking me to the emergency & i saw the situation in their faces.

i could see in their eyes that i was goner.I knew i must do something. There was a strong nurse there who asked me loudly if i irritate to anythings.i answered, yes. Doctors & nurses stopped suddenly waiting to my reply.

I suspired and answer : “bullet”. I continued while they were laughing:I have chosen to stay alive. Please do operation like what you do for an alive person not a dead.

Jery survived because of doctors skills & certainly for his astonishing attitude.

I learned from him, we every day, have this choice to enjoy our life, or hate it. The mentality is the only thing that is yours really, & nobody can control it or take it.so if you manage to keep it, the other activity in your life will be easier.

Now, you have two choices.