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Nice Analogy!
Too me aikido can be many things. O'Sensei set it up as a mean to an end which was World Peace.
When I started Aikido, it was another martial art to supplement my Karate. I practiced hard and had much doubts and criticisms to many of the strange things I saw. I was constantly trying to prove things that I did not understand were not martially sound.
It was also a way for me to relieve stress and stay in shape.
Today, it is about all this and more. I am more into the spiritual and etheral stuff which for me must be mastered in order to truely become a master of the art.
It seems to grow as I grow. It becomes bigger and bigger and more complex everyday. Just as I think I have it figured out it changes again!
BTW, I don't think you ever really put your tools in the bottom of the tool box. You are the sum of your experiences and you draw from them everytime you do anything. They are never really not in use!
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