英语美文：选择快乐所以快乐

以下是小编整理的情感类英语美文欣赏：选择快乐所以快乐， 希望使你的心灵有所触动。

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He wasalways in a good mood and always had somethingpositive to say. When someone would ask him howhe was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, Iwould be twins!"

He was a unique manager because he hadseveral waiters who had followed him around fromrestaurant to restaurant. The reason the waitersfollowed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was anatural motivator. If an employee was having a badday, Jerry was there telling the employee how tolook 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 choicestoday. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood." I chooseto 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 mecomplaining, 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, everysituation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people willaffect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It"s yourchoice how you live life."

I reflected on what Jerry said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start myown business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about lifeinstead of reacting to it.

Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in arestaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint bythree armed robbers. While trying to open the safe(保险柜), his hand, shaking fromnervousness, slipped off (忘记，遗漏)the combination (开启号码锁的号码组合)。 The robberspanicked and shot him.

Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma (创伤，外伤)center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from thehospital 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, hereplied, "If I were any better, I"d be twins. Wanna see my scars(伤疤)?" I declined to see hiswounds, 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 backdoor," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered that I had two choices: I couldchoose 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 (护理人员)were great. They kept telling me I was goingto be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions onthe 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 (魁梧的，结实的)nurse shouting questions at me," saidJerry.

"She asked if I was allergic (过敏的)to anything. "Yes," I replied. The doctors andnurses 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. Ilearned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully.

Attitude, after all, is everything.