Somebody else showed me this video a while back. It is truly one of the most heart-wrenching things I've ever seen. I find it strangely inspiring. I hope you all enjoy it. [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOAcRKZxjy4]YouTube - Last Minutes with ODEN[/ame]
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Michael 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 always reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!" He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Michael 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 Michael and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Michael replied, "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, choose the positive side of life." "Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes, it is," Michael 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 affect your mood. You choose to be in a good mood or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live your life." I reflected on what Michael said. Soon thereafter, I left the Tower 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 Michael was involved in a serious accident, falling some 60 feet from a communications tower. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Michael was released from the hospital with rods placed in his back. I saw Michael 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 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," Michael replied. "Then, as I lay on the ground, 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. Michael 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 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 Michael. "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, "Gravity." Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead." Michael 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. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. After all, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Enjoy each day, each breath and mostly---each and every friend
Omg that ODEN video was seriously the saddest thing I have seen. I've lost 2 dogs and it is a lot harder than anyone who hasn't lost a loving pet imagines. I'm wiping my eyes still and it has been 10 min after watching it.
two things that make me cry dying pets like the ugly and oden stories and when a guy cares enough about something to cry over it makes me cry to because it takes a lot to get most guys to cry and it is really a testament to how much they care.
my friend showed me this and it was a kinda shameful moment for me.. he showed me when we were chillin with a couple girls and i started tearing up and shit. [ame=http://www.vimeo.com/8191217]Last Minutes with ODEN on Vimeo[/ame] oh damn somebody already posted it... did J Dylan post that shit or something? lol he's the one who showed me it
I'm really glad you folks enjoyed Last Minutes With ODEN as much as I did. "Enjoy" seems like the wrong word to use... I'm glad you found it powerful and moving. I really encourage you to share it with others. I'm glad somebody shared it with me.
Nope, a friend of mind showed me this one. Nobody really deserves credit for it though, as far as I'm concerned - I just hope others can get as much out of it. Nothing shameful about tearing up, man. Means you got heart, means you have compassion. I know what you mean. Takes me a lot to get so visibly worked up, too. It's got that power that just grabs you by the insides and makes it hurts.