The greatest thing so far that I’ve learned from Aikido is acceptance and allowance through awareness. Life comes at you whether you’re ready for it or not. The best thing you can do is NOT judge it and act through it. It is not good or bad. It just is. Conflict just is. It is neutral.
When I found out I was going to be evicted I had all this energy inside me. It was not negative and it was not positive. 
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It just is energy, conflict. I accepted and moved through it. I took action. I made sure I had a couch to sleep on at the very least. I asked why in order to keep it from happening again. I didn’t dwell or judge my previous actions. I just defined them in order to not do them again. It’s less of a matter of why didn’t I do this or that sooner or a matter of I wish this or that would have happened, but rather a matter of making different choices and actions in the future starting now.
I know now that you have to lean forward and put your weight on your front foot; reach out and be ready to accept the world into your energy and move through it. You are only able to control you. Put yourself out there and create opportunities for yourself. The world does not change for you, you change the world for you.
