The Sometimes Disappointing Nature of Human Emotion

As some of you may know earlier this year we found the “perfect” property for our farm and for our dogs. We started the process of due diligence and finally finalized the technicalities with the owner. Everyone from our family approved of the home and we were moving forward.
The plans for the farm were lear, we would shift our focus from tourism videos to farming and home improvement. DIY is one of the things we love and thought it would be awesome to share the experience with everyone. Farming is also getting headlines recently due to the increasing price of food and other goods.
The farm is fenced, has three structures to utilize and had an operational farm available immediately upon transfer. This month we flew as a family to Saitama to do final walkthroughs and final checklist of requirements for paperwork from the owner.
After about a year we finally could see the finish line and a start to our new journey in life. THEN. the call.

The owner had called our mutual friend to inform her that he did not wish to honor the terms or deal we had worked to come to. He stated that his friends did not want him to sell the home and did not think we could or would maintain the property in the fashion THEY wanted. Because of this, our dream, our deal and our future plans were destroyed.

Admittedly i’m still in shock. I would have never thought, something of this magnitude would happen to the deal and honestly i’m left in a position of confusion, pain and anger. So where do we go from here? What do we do?

The question has been haunting me for the last three days and honestly, I just don’t have an answer.

Our home in Hokkaido is sitll fine, it’s functional but eventually we WILL outgrow the property with our ten dogs. And the winters have honestly been difficult in regards to management of the puppies since most of their run space gets covered.

But we are survivors. We have forged our path until this point so why should this situation change that?

I’m headed back to Hokkaido now. I visited Saitama in the hopes of finding salvation to this deal but the decision is and seems final. I will gather my thoughts, navigate my feelings and have long discussions with my brother and our family.

Perhaps it was not meant to be and perhaps for good reason. The future is a blurry place but its our job to make it a little more clear.

SO. I pledge to myself today to keep working, keep trying and always keep dreaming. Something will happen and something will fulfill the desire and goals we have set for ourselves and our futures.

But until then, i’ll keep you all posted on whats to come.

Until the next one!