Allergic to Bullets

[Sick_Angel13]

Allergic to Bullets - Unknown Author




Read this, and let it really sink in...Then choose how you start your day tomorrow...

Jerry 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, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry 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 Jerry and asked him, I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, Jerry, 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," Jerry 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 will 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."

I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant 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 Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in a restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand, shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combination. The robbers panicked and shot him. Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center.

After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry 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 did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place. "the first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, 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.

Jerry 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 deadman'. 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 Jerry. "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 breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them, 'I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead'." Jerry 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.

You have two choices now:
1. Delete this.
2. Forward it to the people you care about.

Hope you will choose #2.
I did.

[Tybalt]

Oh I am well aware of the choices I make, some times I want to be pissed and miserable, I can't be happy other wise.

[Sick_Angel13]

There's one thing though, no one can always be happy - it's alright to be pissed off, what's happiness without getting pissed off for once?

[Tybalt]

A empty wallet.

[Petling]

I know what he is saying, I chose recently to stop listening to all the bullshyt my family kept dumping on me.

[Moloch]

And we're all glad that we could be a part of you fighting back against them all, Petling!

[Raziel]

careful pet. don't over do it, they are your family after all. they are in the best position to hurt you, best not aggravate them............. too much.

[Sick_Angel13]

Don't listen to Raz, he has no idea what we go through in our homes, neither we do of his but this is for defense, for Merlin's sake.

[Tybalt]

Your family is only as different as you make them... I have made my mother the most different of them, I ignore no one as much as I ignore her.

If you can make it, you can un-do it, you choose who hurts you and who doesn't. My family will no longer hurt me as well as any one.

The trade for invicibility, a whole bunch of people laughing at you and being lonely, but who cares, the people laughing at you can't hurt you, nor can the lack of people close to you.

[Petling]

Yeah. God, I am addicted to this forum now. I LOOOVES YOU ALL!!!!

[Tybalt]

... *Steps ay from Petling.*

... As I said Moloch, if I ran away from every nut job... 

[Tybalt]

... From the time it has taken to learn and the actions that needed to be done to to finally understand what SA just put up... This long and those strong actions were needed?

... Then I'm a fucking idiot.