Allergy to Bullet

Preface
Follwing is a very meaningful article I read from a book entitled "Don't Worry, Be Happy" by Phang Cheng Kar. I found it is really inspiring and meaningful. Although it might be too long for you, hope you will go through it, as, I would say, it maybe will change your mind about your current life.
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I'm Allergy to Bullet !
Chee Kong was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When he was asked 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 Chee Kong was because his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Chee Kong would be 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 Chee Kong and asked him, “I don't get it?” Chee Kong replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself, ‘Chee Kong, you have two choices today. You can choose to be good in 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 compliment or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life.” “Yeah, right, it's not easy,” I protested, “Yes, it is,” Chee Kong said “Life is all about choices. When you cut away 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 good mood or in bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life.”

I reflected on what Chee Kong said. Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We loss 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 Chee Kong 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. Chee Kong was rushed to the emergency ward at the general hospital nearby. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Chee Kong walked out from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body.

I saw Chee Kong about 6 months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, “If I were any better, I'd be twins. Want to see my scars?” I declined to see the 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”, Chee Kong 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 choose to live” “Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?” I asked. Chee Kong continued, “The paramedics 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 face of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, ‘He's a dead man'. I knew I need to take action.” “What did you do?” I asked. “Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me,” said Chee Kong. “She asked if I was allergic to anything. ‘Yes,' I replied. The doctors 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.” Said Chee Kong 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.

Of course, there are certain things in life that we have no choice e.g. choosing our parents, getting old, sick and dying. But most of the time, we have a CHOICE to do what we want in life. Everything is possible in life. It's just a matter of having the RIGHT ATTITUDE, using the RIGHT SKILLS and the extra advantage of the RIGHT STRATEGIES.

DESTINY
IS IN YOUR HAND,
NOT ON YOUR HAND
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