They always said it was true, but I've never seen a clearer example in my life: About a month ago I had to move out of my apartment suddenly. We didn't have enough time to give the proper 30-day written notice. We also didn't have an awful lot of time or money to clean carpets, walls, repair damages. My roommate (who I unfortunately never signed onto the lease, big mistake) left an incredible mess and a lot of damage in his room. The landlord was furious and demanded about 1300 USD for repairs, threatened to take me to court, the whole works.

Most of the time I saw them, and all landlords, as "bad people", to put it politely. I was so disgusted by the prospect that someone could make money simply by having enough already to buy an apartment building or stocks, etc, that I forgot they were real people with real feelings. Something in me shifted and I decided to write them a very guenuine, honest letter, as real people, telling them that I was not happy about the way things turned out and was sorry if it affected them or anyone else in a negative way. I simply told them my situation, that I was still looking for work and having a hard time, but that I would pay them whatever I could whenever I could.

I guess that sort of honesty is rare in my part of the world or something, because they responded saying that nobody ever replies to them at all in such a situation. They were so thrilled in fact, that they FORGAVE ALL THE DEBT! (*Insert boinging sound of the wacky universe bouncing back on itself*) I still can't completely believe it, and I could believe that maybe I was just very very lucky, but something in me feels like this was a big lesson. I am used to getting trampled on and taken advantage of for having an open heart. I'm seeing that with the right kind of will energy behind it, working in concert with it, heart has the power to really open doors. Just being open, honest, and loving seems to have achieved more than all of my possible resistance could ever have done.

I'm starting to wonder what might happen if we could get a bunch of these kind of letters in front of world leaders...