Editor's Note

Editor's Note

On the 15th of September, I lost my dad. With this issue being our community issue, for me that means family, so I have decided to share some of my learnings from this amazing man.

From as far back as I can remember, I would ask Dad, “Dad are you sniffling? Do you have cold? He would say, “Nope, sshh if I say it then I have to accept it, so I definitely DO NOT have a cold. Whatever I say is, so I need to choose very carefully what I say, what I say becomes my truth.”

I grew up with this and took it on for myself, everyone who knows me knows my ‘if you say so’ mantra. I truly believe that whatever I say is, and my dad gave me this as my very first gift.

My next gift from dad and another that I live my life by is a story that he shared with me and it helped to mould me into who I am.

He told me the story about a son who said to his dad, “Dad I keep having an internal battle with two wolves, one is evil and negative and constantly looks for and finds the bad stuff in my life, he is filled with anger, frustration, jealousy, bitterness and he is just never satisfied. The other wolf is happy and positive and so grateful for what he has in his life, he just doesn’t look for or ever seem to see the bad stuff, I’m so confused and I just don’t which wolf is going to win, they are constantly fighting within me. Which wolf do you think Dad? Which wolf will win this internal battle? His father looked and him and said, the wolf that will win is the wolf that you feed. And you choose which one that is.

The learnings I recieved from dad have made me the person that I am today, a person who now gets to share these learnings with everyone around me.

But I guess the biggest thing that dad taught me was to believe in myself, that I could be, do and have whatever I chose for myself and my life.

At the end of the day it isn’t about the life we live, it is about the life we give, and dad you gave life, you gave life to me and many others.

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Jennifer Swaine

Public Relations Specialist | Senior Communications Expert

9 年

Beautiful and wise words Vickie Magic. My dad is very unwell at the moment and I too have been reflecting on what my beloved dad taught me. At the age of about 10 I made a comment about the local garbage man. My dad quickly reprimanded me by telling that the man I was so quick to judge had actually fought in WWII and was in fact a hero. He told me then that we must not be quick to judge people especially when I'll informed. He went on to point out that all work, irrespective of what that work is - is honourable. Life lesson learnt there and then and I try and apply that same thinking every day.

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