Week 7 MKE Blog Post – Lisa Halak – White
Life is an Attitude!

Life is truly an attitude! I can’t believe we are in week 7 already, WOW! Time flies!!! I am coming up on my 58th Birthday, very soon now! Scorpio all the way.

A lot of my friends are asking what I feel like doing for this one, but, I’m not really sure. I feel like it’s just another day! I don’t feel much like going out, but, Attitude! Should I? Shouldn’t I? Not quite sure yet!

Interesting that Week 7 we focus on the Law of Forgiveness, this time of year has me thinking about a lot of family stuff that we are taking care of. My father’s disappearance in 2020 was around this time of the year.

Oct 26, 2020 and his Birthday would be 5 days after mine on the 20th of November. We had not spoken since 2017, so, it is a bit of a tough time this month. I never forgave him for the things he said to me the last time we spoke. I wrote him off and left the province.

Never looked back, never spoke to him again. So, when I got the call from my brother on November 7th, 2020 asking if I had reconciled with dad and was he visiting me in Regina, Saskatchewan. I was like, No!

I said, he never called to apologize and I wasn’t about to call him! (That would be 2 stubborn Scorpio’s unwilling to let go!) And, so it was, he was missing and no-one knew where he went or what happened to him.

So, jumping to November 2025 – 5 years has passed and there has been no new information about our father’s disappearance. We have our theories, but, the police have not had any new information nor have they solved the case. I’m sure it will be put in a drawer and forgotten about.

My brother and I have 2 different attitudes about this! I would just like to put the past behind and move on with my life. I have now forgiven my dad for all the things that he did and said back then and have decided to move on.

My brother on the other hand is determined to find out what happened and make the person(s) responsible be held accountable. It takes a lot of energy to take that route, and I refuse to be dragged down the rabbit hole and waste too much of my time and energy on it.

I mean, we have done a lot to get things rectified, given the police information and documentation that could prove certain individuals had something to do with the disappearance of our father.

But, in time, all will be revealed. People who know something will slip up, and when they do, they will be caught and held accountable.

My new Attitude: I trust in the Universal Law of Karma!!! When one makes a choice to do something, good or bad, knowing there could be consequences, but doing it anyway. Karma will prevail!

Life is an Attitude:
This Quote by Charles Swindoll is one of my favorites, I learned this back in 2000 when I worked at Gold’s Gym in Calgary, AB

ATTITUDE
“The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do.

It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company…a church….a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.

We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable.

The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude…I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you…we are in charge of our attitudes.”  ― Charles Swindoll