Here is a question for you? Which do you choose? Saad is the kind of guy you love to hate. He is Always in a good mood and has a positive aura around him. I asked him 'how are you Saad?' and he said, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" Imagine the extent now.He was a natural in his motivating spirit.
If our friend was having a bad day, Saad would be right up there explaining to him to see the glass not half empty but half full. Seeing his positivity really made me curious about what exactly was the works, so one day I went up to Saad and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Saad smiled at me and said, "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." He made it sound so simple and I just had my mouth hanging, trying not to believe the seemingly crappy explanation he fed me with. "Yeah, right," I protested.
"Yes, it is," He said. "Life is all about choices. When you consciously cut away from all that is junk and all situations which give an open invitation to misery you make a wise choice for yourself; every situation is a choice. You even choose how you react to situations and those who say it is destiny don’t know the definition of it. 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 life. Only the course of events is destined, not how and when you react to what and how."
I reflected on what Saad said. Soon thereafter, I left my line of work and started putting in the right effort in the right industry, in the place where I belonged. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. His words are forever engraved in my soul.
Several years later, I heard that Saad met with a disastrous car accident which eventually ruptured his physical self. After 15 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Saad was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Saad 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," He said smilingly.
"Then, as I lay on the stretcher, 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?" I asked a stupid question but he caught my curiosity again.
"The paramedics kept telling me I was going to be fine but the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses got me scared. In their expressions, I read "he's a dead man". That is when I was nudged to take my own course of action."
'What action could you take in your position?' I was shocked.
"I took an action of choice, I chose to live and I told them to operate on me as if I am alive, not dead." Saad lived, thanks to the medical skills of his doctors, and most importantly because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything. But attitude of the right sort.
Worrying about tomorrow will only worry today.
Each day has enough trouble of its own. Taking each day at a time is what life is about.
Every today will be a tomorrow you worried about yesterday. **smiles
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