Okay.

And I was a foot away from an eight-foot water snake that was, you know, about that thick around.

Um, [smacks lips] and we sat and stared at each other for, it felt like a long time, although I know it was probably only about five seconds or 10 seconds.

[laughs] I realized at some point that if, if I became scared, that this snake would become scared and would swim, would, could potentially attack me.

So I retreated, and it retreated and swam away.

But what I noticed in my 30 days of silent meditation is that our thoughts influence the things that happen around us.

So when my thoughts were negative, I would get stung by bees, black flies, mosquitoes.

Did you like walk out of this and say like, "Hey, maybe with my, whatever this Judaism thing is or, or spirituality of like just accepting, accepting the way it is or myself that..." I don't know.