It's a choice

I know this is one of those silly little inspirations stories passed about in email but I really thought it had a good message that NEEDS to be passed around. So many people don't realize they DO have a choice. So, read it and then, just as it says below, let it really sink in and then choose.

Dreamweaver

LET IT REALLY SINK IN - THEN CHOOSE.

John is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good mood andalways has something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he wasdoing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"
He was a natural motivator.
If an employee was having a bad day, John was there telling the employeehow to look on the positive side of the situation.
Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up and askedhim, "I don't get it!
You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?"
He replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choicestoday. You can choose to be in a good mood or ... you can choose to be in abad mood.
I choose to be in a good mood."
Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or...I canchoose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it.
Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept theircomplaining or... I can point out the positive side of life. I choose thepositive side of life.
"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested.
"Yes, it is," he said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away allthe junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react tosituations. You choose how people affect your mood.
You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's yourchoice how you live your life."
I reflected on what he said. Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry tostart my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when Imade a choice about life instead of reacting to it.
Several years later, I heard that he was involved in a serious accident,falling some 60 feet from a communications tower.
After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, he was released fromthe hospital with rods placed in his back.
I saw him about six months after the accident.
When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd betwins...Wanna see my scars?"
I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask him what had gone through hismind as the accident took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of mysoon-to-be born daughter," he replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, Iremembered that I had two choices: I could choose to live or...I couldchoose to die. I chose to live."
"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.
He continued, "..the paramedics were great.
They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me intothe ER and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, Igot really scared. In their eyes, I read 'he's a dead man'. I knew I neededto take action."
"What did you do?" I asked.
"Well, there was a big burly nurse shouting questions at me," said John."She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes, I replied.' The doctors andnurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breathand yelled, 'Gravity'."
Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me asif I am alive, not dead."
He lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of hisamazing attitude... I learned from him that every day we have the choice tolive fully.
Attitude, after all, is everything.
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.