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choose to be positive

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At the beginning of my 8 a.m. class one Monday  at University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV),  I cheerfully asked my students how their  weekend had been. One young man said that his  weekend had not been very good. He’d had his  wisdom teeth extracted. The young man then  proceeded to ask me why I always seemed to be so cheerful.  His question reminded me of something I'd read  somewhere before: “Every morning when you get up,  you have a choice about how you want to approach life  that day.” I said to the young man. “I choose to be cheerful.  Let me give you an example,” I continued. The other 60  students in the class ceased their chatter and began to  listen to our conversation. “In addition to teaching here at  UNLV, I also teach out at the community college in  Henderson, about 17 miles down the freeway from where I live.  One day a few weeks ago I drove those 17 miles to Henderson.  I exited the freeway and turned onto College Drive. I only had  to drive