“Positive thinking takes me far”, this is all what Harry thought about day and night. He was totally unique, a person you would love to hate. He would mostly stay in a good mood and always have something positive to say. When someone would ask him about how he was doing, he used to reply, “If I were any better, I’d be twins.”
He was a restaurant manager, he was unique and that’s the reason why he was followed by several waiters from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude, he was a natural motivator. If any employee was having a bad day, Harry was there telling the employee how to look at the positive side of the story.
Seeing this style really made me curious. So one day I went up to him and asked him, “I don’t get it! You can’t be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?”Harry replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Harry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or in a bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Every time someone comes complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side.”
I reflected on what Harry had said. After I started with my own new business I totally lost touch with him, but often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that it was the end of the month and Harry was going to deposit cash in his account. While he was exiting, he was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to get his phone out of the pocket, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the phone to the ground with a crack. Thus the robbers panicked and shot him on his forehead. Luckily Harry was found quickly and rushed to the nearest trauma centre. After eighteen hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Harry was released from the hospital. I saw Harry about six months after the accident.
When I asked him how he was doing, he replied, “If I was doing any better, I’d be twins.”
I asked him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place, “The first thing that went through my mind is that I shouldn’t have felt nervous and secondly I remembered that I had two 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. Harry continued, “The doctors were really good they kept on telling me that I am fine, though I knew that the matter was serious.”, “What did you do?”I asked. “I kept patient, I thought positive and chose to live!”
Harry lived. Thanks to the skill of the doctors, but amazing positive attitude to life resulted in his fast recovery .
Moral: I learned from him that everyday we have the choose to live fully. Positive attitude, after all, is everything.
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