A Man of Attitude

Michael is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is always in a good
mood and always has something positive to say. When someone
would ask him how he was doing, would reply,"If I were any
better, I would be twins!" He was a natural motivator.If an
employeewas having a bad day, Michael was there telling the
employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to
Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive
person all of the time. How do you do it?" Michael replied, Each
morning I wake up and say to myself, you have two choices today.
You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a
bad mood. I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something
bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn
from it. I 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 choose the positive side of life.

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is,"
Michael 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 affect your mood. You choose
to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your
choice how you live your life." I reflected on what Michael said.
Soon hereafter, I left the Tower Industry to start my own
business.

We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice
about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that
Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet
from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and
weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital
with rods placed in his back.

I saw Michael about six months after the accident. When I asked
him how he was, he replied. "If I were any better, I'd be twins.
Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but I did ask
him what had gone through his mind as the accident took place.
"The first thing that went through my mind was the well-being of
my soon to be born daughter," Michael replied.
"Then, as I lay on the ground, 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. Michael continued, "...the paramedics were great. They
kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me
into the ER and I saw the expressions 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 burly nurse
shouting questions at me," said Michael. "She asked if I was
allergic to anything. "Yes, I replied." The doctors and nurses
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 as if
I am alive, not dead."

Michael lived, thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because
of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we
have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will
worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
After all today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Life is full of choices with yes and no, its attitude which
decides ...and you are the best judge of it.

Best Moments in Life

* To fall in love.
* To laugh until it hurts your stomach.
* To find mails by the thousands when you return from a vacation.
* To go for a vacation to some pretty place.
* To listen to your favorite song in the radio.
* To go to bed and to listen while it rains outside.
* To leave the shower and find that the towel is warm.
* To clear your last exam.
* To receive a call from someone, you don't see a lot, but you want to.
* To find money in a pant that you haven't used since last year .
* To laugh at yourself looking at mirror, making faces.:)))
* Calls at midnight that last for hours.
* To laugh without a reason.
* To accidentally hear somebody say something good about you.
* To wake up and realize it is still possible to sleep for a couple of hours.
* To hear a song that makes you remember a special person.
* To be part of a team.
* To watch the sunset from the hill top.
* To make new friends.
* To feel butterflies! in the stomach every time that you see that person.
* To pass time with your best friends.
* To see people that you like, feeling happy.
* To use a sweater of the person that you like and find that it still smells
of their perfume.
* See an old friend again and to feel that the things have not changed.
* To take an evening walk along the beach.
* To have somebody tell you that he/she loves you.
* To laugh .......laugh........and laugh ...... remembering stupid things
done with stupid friends.

These are some of the best moments of life....

You r my Last Leaf

I was thinking of old friends today.And how many of them have slipped away.Moved, got married, or stopped calling so much, Found new friends, got busy, and just lost touch.It reminded me of falling leaves.
Every autumn the leaves fall from the trees. Some stay longer than others, but eventually - Each leaf must fall, I'm told, Leaving the tree alone to face the cold. Why is it that in the time of utmost need The leaves would seek to leave the tree?
And when we need our friends around We look and they cannot be found? Of course these friendships come and go.
And in the spring new leaves will grow. But I prefer autumn friends of old. With crackling laughter and colors bold. It saddens me now I must admit. How somehow, someway, I did forget Laughing with old friends of mine.
During summers when the sun would shine. And then I thought of you. That one stubborn leaf that won't let go. That clings despite the winds that blow. Fighting ice, and snow, and winter's stings Hanging on right through till spring.
So I guess that's what you are to me - The very last leaf to leave the tree. I know it seems silly, but it's true. When I see that last leaf... I think of you.

God Exists

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering that I have seen.

It's an explanation other people will understand.
A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed.
Barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."
Why do you say that?" asked the customer
"Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist.

Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?

Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain.

I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things."
The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument.
The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barbers shop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair & an un trimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt.
The customer turned back and entered the barbershop again and he said to the barber:
"You know what? Barbers do not exist."
"How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber.

And I just worked on you!"
"No!" the customer exclaimed.
"Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards like that man outside."
"Ah, but barbers DO exist! What happens is, people do not come to me."
"Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point!
God, too, DOES exist! What happens, is, people don't go to Him and do not look for Him.

That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the World."

THE CUP OF LIFE

As he was about to sip his tea, the disciple noticed a fly in his cup. This was, of course, a minor occurrence. Living in an ashram surrounded by the woods, such occurrences are but inevitable - a fly in the tea, insects crawling all over one’s body, ants in the sugar bin, spiders in the cupboard, even scorpions on the roof!
The Master happened to see the disciple grimace. He leaned forward with sympathy and consternation.
“What’s the matter?”
“Oh, nothing.” The disciple said. “It’s nothing - just a fly in my tea.” The disciple managed a little smile to project acceptance and composure. “I don’t want my Master to think that mere insects can disturb me… certainly not after all these years of being with him,” the disciple thought to himself.
“Oh, oh, a fly in the tea,” the Master said in a low tone.
“It’s no problem.” The disciple reiterated, smiling reassuringly at the Master. But the Master, with concern written all over his face, continued to focus on the cup. He rose from his chair, leaned over and dipped his finger into the tea. With great care, he lifted out the offending fly and then left the room.
A while later, the Master returned, beaming. “He’s going to be all right,” he said softly. He explained how he had placed the fly on the leaf of a bush so his wings could dry. “He’s still alive and has started flapping his wings… we can confidently expect him to take flight soon…”
Then the Master turned towards his disciple and said, “It wasn’t a question of the tea, but the life of the fly. You can always make another cup of tea, but the fly wouldn’t have got another moment to live… if we hadn’t acted in time.”
To the disciple stunned at the Master’s compassion, the Master said,

“Use things and love life… don’t love things and abuse life.”

Love is more than anything

There was once this guy who is very much in love with his girl.

This romantic guy folded 1,000 pieces of paper cranes as a gift to his girl.
Although, at that time he was just a small fry in his company,
his future doesn't seem too bright, they were very happy together.
Until one day, his girl told him she was going to Paris and will never come back.
She also told him that she cannot visualize any future for the both of them, so they went their own ways there and then...
Heartbroken, the guy agreed. But when he regained his confidence, he worked hard day and night, slogging his body and mind just to make something out of him.
Finally with all the hard work and the help of friends, this guy had set up his own company ...
”You never fail until you stop trying.”
One rainy day, while this guy was driving, he saw an elderly couple sharing an umbrella in the rain walking to some destination.
Even with the umbrella, they were still drenched.
It didn't take him long to realize they were his girl's parents.
With a heart in getting back at them, he drove slowly beside the couple, wanting them to spot him in his luxury sedan.
He wanted them to know that he wasn't the same any more;
he had his own company, car, condo, etc. He made it!
What he saw next confused him; the couple was walking towards a cemetery, and so he got out of his car and followed...
and he saw his girl, a photograph of her smiling sweetly as ever at him from her tombstone and he saw his paper cranes right beside her...
Her parents saw him. He asked them why this had happened.
They explained, she did not leave for France at all. She was ill with cancer.
She had believed that he will make it someday, but she did not want to be his obstacle... therefore she had chosen to leave him.
Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to, doesn't mean they don't love you with all they have.
She had wanted her parents to put his paper cranes beside her, because, if the day comes when fate brings him to her again...he can take some of those back with him...
Once you have loved, you will always love.
For what's in your mind may escape but what's in your heart will remain forever.
The guy just wept...The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right besides her knowing you can't have her, see her or be with her ever again.........hoping you understand.

”Find time to realize that there is one person who means so much to you, for you might wake up one morning losing that person who you thought meant nothing to you.“

Mischievous Brothers

Two little boys, ages 8 and 10, are excessively mischievous. They are always getting into trouble and their parents know all about it. If any mischief occurs in their town, the two boys are probably involved.
The boys' mother heard that a preacher in town had been successful in disciplining children, so she asked if he would speak with her boys. The preacher agreed, but he asked to see them individually.
So the mother sent the 8 year old first, in the morning, with the older boy to see the preacher in the afternoon. The preacher, a huge man with a booming voice, sat the younger boy down and asked him sternly,
"Do you know where God is, son?" The boy's mouth dropped open, but he made no response, sitting there wide-eyed with his mouth hanging open.So the preacher repeated the question in an even sterner tone,
"Where is God?!"
Again, the boy made no attempt to answer. The preacher raised his voice even more and shook his finger in the boy's face and bellowed,
"Where is God?!"
The boy screamed and bolted from the room, ran directly home and dove into his closet, slamming the door behind him.
When his older brother found him in the closet, he asked,” what happened?" The younger brother, gasping for breath, replied, "We are in BIG trouble this time.

("I just LOVE reading next line again and again")

GOD is missing, and they think we did it!

A Friend is more

A friend is more than someone who wipes
Your tears when you are sad.
They are more than the person you call when
Someone makes you incredibly mad.
A true friend does not have to be a person
You spend time with every weekend,
Or even someone who lives
Just around the bend.

A friend can be a person with whom
You shared a single moment,
But you felt like it was just for
You they were sent.
Friendship does not always have to
Build up over years
It, like love, sometimes
Just appears.

So always remember that
Each person you meet
Has the potential to be someone
Especially interesting and neat.
Try not to judge those who
Don't seen your "type,"
Because their personality,
May fit yours just right.