And I sit there and I. And I perceive all these people are here and they're all like singing these songs together and saying these prayers or whatever. And I'm like, it seems weird to me, but I real.
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But I've had like this sort of epiphany that I think that's a big part of what religion is. It's a social activity.
Yeah.
It's about God, but it's also about being with other people. And you know, so it's. I certainly don't enjoy going to church.
It's uncomfortable for me. I kind of view it as, like, I go in every time saying, what am I gonna. How can I get something positive out of this?
And then, you know, so. Yeah, so the, the philanthropic part, like being on my, on, on these boards, it's very hard. Like, I love my business because I see something that needs to be done and I do it.
And then if you're on a board, you don't get to do that. You might sit at a meeting and like, have strong thoughts, but you, you struggle for the right way to disagree with others and you feel like I feel so much responsibility for the outcome with very little, like, authority to influence the outcome. Right. So that's very uncomfortable.
And, and that's kind of like why I'm doing it. I mean, I think I can help and offer perspective that they need, but that's pretty uncomfortable.
Well, just to distill this theme, I mean, I love the phrase. In fact, I think I've heard it to, to learn what was it? Be comfortable and discomfort or learn to be.
Learn to find Comfort in discomfort. Something. Yeah, yeah, it's. It's such a good one. And I, and I, I'm a believer.
I, I like to think that I've maybe not done that super hardcore, but I, there's, there's an element of that in my personal philosophy as well. This is awesome, Christian. I'm just keeping my eye on the time because I want to hear about your, I want to share with everybody your second acquisition.
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