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    SIX GREAT LESSONS   Part 2
   Important Things Life Teaches You...


   4. The Obstacle in Our Path

    In ancient times, a king had a boulder placed on a roadway.
   Then he hid himself and watched to see if anyone would remove the
   huge rock. Some of the king's wealthiest merchants and courtiers came
   by and simply walked around it.

   Many loudly blamed the king for not keeping the roads clear, but none
   did anything about getting the big stone out of the way.

   Then a peasant came along carrying a load of vegetables.
   On approaching the boulder, the peasant laid down his burden and tried
   to move the stone to the side of the road. After much pushing and
   straining, he finally succeeded.

   As the peasant picked up his load of vegetables, he noticed a purse
   lying in the road where the boulder had been. The purse contained many
   gold coins and a note from the king indicating that the gold was for the
   person who removed the boulder from the roadway.

   The peasant learned what many others never understand.
   Every obstacle presents an opportunity to improve one's condition.



   5. Giving Blood

   Many years ago, when I worked as a volunteer at Stanford Hospital, I got
   to know a little girl named Liz who was suffering from a rare and serious
   disease.

   Her only chance of recovery appeared to be a blood transfusion from her
   5-year old brother, who had miraculously survived the same disease and
   had developed the antibodies needed to combat the illness.

   The doctor explained the situation to her little brother, and asked the
   boy if he would be willing to give his blood to his sister. I saw him hesitate
   for only a moment before taking a deep breath and saying,
   "Yes, I'll do it if it will save Liz."

   As the transfusion progressed, he lay in bed next to his sister and smiled,
   as we all did, seeing the color returning to her cheeks. Then his face
   grew pale and his smile faded.

   He looked up at the doctor and asked with a trembling voice,
   "Will I start to die right away?"
   Being young, the boy had misunderstood the doctor; he thought he was
   going to have to give his sister all of his blood.



   6. I've Two Choices

    Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood
    and always had 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 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 gun point 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 said, "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, "Theparamedics were great. They kept telling me I was
    going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room
    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 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 2 choices now
    1. Save or delete this mail from your mailbox, or
    2. Forward it to people you care about.

    Hope you will choose No. 2.

    Work like you don't need the money.
    Love like you've never been hurt.
    Dance like nobody's watching.




    



    次は SIX GREAT LESSONSと一緒に、
    「何も言いません。一読下さい.(^^)」
    と紹介してくれた AP News です。



    Subject: Grocery Shooting

    WANTED FOR ATTEMPTED MURDER
    (The actual AP headline)


    Linda Burnett, 23, was visiting her inlaws, and while there went to a
    nearby supermarket to pick up some groceries. Several people noticed
    her sitting in her car with the windows rolled up and with her eyes
    closed, with both hands behind the back of her head.

    One customer who had been at the store for a while became concerned
    and walked over to the car. He noticed that Linda's eyes were now open,
    and she looked very strange.

    He asked her if she was okay, and Linda replied that she'd been shot in
    the back of the head, and had been holding her brains in for over an hour.
    The man called the paramedics, who broke into the car because the
    doors were locked and Linda refused to remove her hands from her head.

    When they finally got in, they found that Linda had a wad of bread dough
    on the back of her head. A Pillsbury biscuit canister had exploded from
    the heat, making a loud noise that sounded like a gunshot, and the wad
    of dough hit her in the back of her head.

    When she reached back to find out what it was, she felt the dough and
    thought it was her brains. She initially passed out, but quickly recovered
    and tried to hold her brains in for over an hour until someone noticed
    and came to her aid. And, yes, Linda is a blonde.





                      

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