 So one thing we often times like to forget is a very simple fact that we are all connected And as you know, as you know, I'm an Aikido instructor and as most of you know and Sometimes when people look into Aikido and people think about Aikido, they They have a hard time to understand the whole essence of I could say the life-protecting sword So what what is meant by that is that, you know, there's the sword which destroys and there's the sword which protects Saves and actually that's very close to what Aikido is but still when people practice martial arts, most martial arts are about destroying if there's a problem I destroy it either, you know scared away or I destroy it and Aikido is not about that. Aikido Ossensi The founder of Aikido often times would say I'm one with everything I'm the universe So he would see himself as the part of the whole he would say that we are all one family But then that question arrives. Somebody attacks you What the hell? How can you see him as part of the family? But you still have to do it just in a sense. He's in a nightmare. He doesn't understand that he's a part of the whole But there's very simple facts even the fact that he has a brother, sister, Child, wife, mother, father. He's loved by someone. Somebody cares about him or he cares about someone We're all human beings, but in that small scenario when somebody attacks us we tend to forget that we tend to Cut out the whole story and just see the other person as this attacker as this monster If we do that then we we're in the same nightmare too But if you step out of the nightmare, you remember that we are all connected We're all part of the same one big system. It's kind of a semi-joke But sometimes I would like to say it maybe he's your milkman, you know he's the person who brings you milk every morning, but that day he's having a bad time and He comes to you he wants to release his aggression towards you and if you see him as an enemy you destroy him next morning You're surprised there's no milk and that is actually the world we live in. We live in a world Which is very much connected, which is all one if there's a knot in a rope and if you cut it out Then the rope becomes shorter So the thing is if you realize that the knot is part of the whole rope if you entangle it if you find the way to dissolve it suddenly the rope is much bigger Actually, there is a good story from I think it's from Terry Dobson one of the first Westerners who went to study with Asensi with Aikido founder Raikido. It's a famous story Where he was practicing Aikido and he was always curious, you know How it works in the street and he was looking forward to try it and so he's going in the metro one day and there's this drunk person who's Going from one person to the other and he's just biting everyone and he's thinking. Oh, yeah Finally he comes to me and I'm gonna show I'm gonna try out my Aikido. I'm gonna show it works But eventually as soon as he's almost there, there's this one guy who stands up and says man What are you doing? What's up with you? And the guy the drunken guy starts to cry and says I have a bad day You know my wife left me or something like that and they sit down and they start to talk and I think it's again Terry Dobson He he doesn't as he tells the story says Sonny it dawned on him and he realized that's Aikido He was untangled out from a knot He wasn't destroyed which would have had no in good impact It would feel bad for the person who did it if we feel bad for the person who Was drunk it would feel bad for everyone because we are connected We don't care about each other if we don't care if we forget that we are connected and if we don't care for the whole That's just gonna start to feel bad for us. The bad thing is that I think that's what we are missing That's what I miss myself too off too often, you know, I forget to often myself And that's why it's important for me to talk about that to share to remind myself as much as to everyone that we are all connected and No wonder if when we feel when we bring ourselves out and we see other people's problems sufferings as Not ours we make that distance between us and leave it as their problems That sense of separation eventually leads to desperation Eventually, it's no surprise when we live such separate lives that we are so sad or that we feel an emptiness nurse in our lives We're not taking care of the whole which we are a part of So I think one of the key secrets if we want to live a happy life quality life If you want to feel good, we have to accept and face the fact that we are all connected We are all one system as long as people we're going to tonight as long as we're going to live our lives just for us It's gonna suck and trust me. I know what I said because that's how it feels to me, too Anyway, there's much more we could talk about that I'm gonna make this video short We're gonna continue in other videos in the future I'm gonna look more about what it means to do I kiddo in the street if you're attacked So there's many topics we're gonna still discuss as always just let yourself go in the comments Let me know what you think what's your experience. Maybe have any questions or even if you have doubts I always like people if they have doubts they tell to me I like to be challenged in such a way. Let's do it on all this was focus My wife is there. She's filming me. Thank you very much for that. And yeah, I'm gonna see you in another video subscribe to keep in touch and Have a good day