Adam G STE
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Experience description:
In short, I woke from a nightmare, cried the hell out of my soul, and I saw
the holy trinity in green light, like a 3 headed cloud at the foot of my
bed, and I got comforted by it lovingly, then without looking to my left a
1.5m round portal opened where I could see the earth from space, where the
earth was in animation, but I was in a more awakened faster state, and I was
filled with overwhelming joy and laughter. But I was facing the right, even
though I could see this through my head in the left, as if I was facing
left.... and at the time this did not seem strange, until it slowly faded
away and I was thinking to myself how I was going to explain this to
anyone....
Long story... I woke from a nightmare, one which I've had 2 times prior as a
child. I'm reluctant to say what the dream was, but for the FIRST time, I will
even though it makes me very uncomfortable.
this would be the 3rd and Last time I've had this dream during my
childhood, where I would be a few blocks away from home, trying to get home, but
I notice I am being followed by a freaky crippled disabled adult who is able to
walk well enough to chase me, and I don't know what he was going to do when he
caught me, but each time I lost him around the corners, he would soon catch up
and get closer. I run home in a panic, and I always make it home, but I wake up
in a terrible upsetting fright.
I was relieved that it was only a dream, but I was AGAIN tortured this way, I
had enough of that topic, I didn't understand why this dream was happening and
haunting me, I've done nothing wrong, I'm kind, courteous, caring, helpful,
polite, I'm a good boy, etc, I'm religious and go to church all the time, I'm
doing all the right things, why is god against me. I hated that there was such a
thing as disabled people with difficulty with their body parts malformed or cut
off etc, including all those hospital equipment and aids that disabled people go
around with to be mobile etc, (I cant go into the detail as I don't want to type
or think those words even now as I'm telling you the story.) but it bothered me
that all people were always feeling sorry for people like that but hating gay
people, specially as kids, I was a gay kid, yet I was excluded harshly from god
heaven and the planet and life etc society, when all along I only spread love to
the rest of humanity, but my love wasn't wanted just because I loved males, it
didn't matter how unconditional and strong and fantastic my love was, I was not
accepted in life in the universe, but disabled people were.
these problems kept going around in my mind, and I was sick of defending myself,
sick of arguing that there were many loopholes in the biblical texts that can
say it was ok to be gay, in many examples of the texts, even though in some
places it said it wasn't, meaning the bible was always contradicting itself and
every thing had conditions, and very contradictory.
so I started to bawl my heart out and cried and cried and cried, like I've never
cried before, my pillow was wet from tears. I was abandoned by life the universe
people and god too, he had no mercy at all, he was all fake and superficial and
not ALL might loving as they say he is. so I just gave up, I got sick of
fighting, I surrendered. I vowed to
the universe in surrender. I said OK, OK, I will stop being different to
everyone, I will just be like everyone else, I will act the same way they do,
and be the same way as they are, fake, shallow, superficial, careless, reckless,
uncaring, rude, selfish, sly, a liar, and just be interested in the normal
everyday things that everyone else is. I wont be special anymore, I wont do
unusual or strange things; just be stupid like the regular kids.
BUT I wont get married, that's where I draw the line, I'm not going to love
girls just because I'm told to.
then I remembered earlier that day watching Donahue on TV, where this lady had a
near death experience while she was in surgery, and she was explaining how she
could float in the air and see herself on the bed, how she could hear and feel
everyone's thoughts and feelings and concerns as if she was reading everyone's
mind also, and that she felt god and that god was not hateful or judgmental,
he was love and caring like you couldn't believe. god was good and loves you.
I FELT a see-through green mist in the garden outside my large window (which was
to the right of me), and then it was thicker and then when I looked at it with
my eyes I could see it too. it was just a light presence of something, (referring
to its weight).
I closed my eyes and kind of ignored it because I was so upset and not in the
mood for anything like this as I just didn't care anymore, I was too tortured,
and I just promised I wouldn't be different or special anymore.
then after a few seconds, with my eyes still closed, but I'm facing the right
side of me, I SENSED that light moved to the opposite side of my bedroom in
front
of me where my feet were, and this mist light positioned itself above the handle
area of my wardrobe mirror, and was about 1m round. it formed into a 3 headed
cloud, and inside it was a large eye, with rays radiating from behind it, all
green. it was see-through.
but, even though I wasn't looking at it, I could see it clearly as if though with
my eyes, but I didn't think about this at the time, as it didn't seem abnormal to
see things without looking at them.
I calmed down and said to my self, 'hmm that's god'.
then it started to expand towards my feet. stayed there for a few
seconds. it was a tingly feeling, kind of like Goosebumps only stronger.
then it moved up to my knees for a minute.
then for a minute it moved up to my hips.
then for a minute it moved up to my chest feeling all goose bumpy. and at
this time I'm feeling happy and comfortable and free of any human-stupidity and
judgment. then it moved down my
shoulders and elbows for a minute.
then it moved down to my hands. then
it completely engulfed my entire body up to my head, and at this time I was
laughing and feeling overwhelming joy like a 5 year old child running joyfully
around the house while his parents are chasing him playing games.
I was engulfed in extreme joy and happiness.
I could sense there was many other beings to the left of the clouds
behind it, maybe these were everyone that lived on earth before and that was
like heaven crowded with faces admiring me and my presence, and taking joy in my
experience. they were all happy for me.
and then I felt a consciousness of communication that, there was nothing
wrong with liking men, don't worry about all that bible stuff, that doesn't apply
to you, that's just for the others that don't have anything else better to do with
their lives, don't worry about it, don't change yourself, You just be You,
threes
nothing wrong with you, threes many things wrong with them but your fine, your
love and pure. and all I felt was unconditional love to the ends of the
universe. and that god loves me like those humans can never imagine, they don't
know what their talking about.
plus at this time I could see the left top corner of my room opening up in some
portal about 1.5m wide. and I could
see the earth in slow animation, and I was wondering why everyone on it was
moving slowly, (even though you cant see people and cars from high up in space)
I could almost see everyone on it moving slowly, driving slowly, acting
frantically and stupidly with their shallow fake lies and expectations
obligations and businesses silly religions and what ever, wasting their lives on
insignificant unimportant things, when they should be focusing on living a
better life full of love and freedom and friendliness etc supporting each other
all like a family, as one earthly family.
but that wasn't any interest to me, I was together with god and all the
souls, I didn't care about the people on earth, even though I was still
physically on earth myself, it was as though my soul was in the universe.
the part of the earth I was looking at was mainly Australia, the east
coast. this portal, or even
the state I was in, opened up the air the space in my room, but it was more
realer than real. it was like a clarity penning, it was everyone being half
asleep, not fully awake, for if they were fully , or more fuller awake, they
would see the same thing I saw. meaning, that I was more awake than our human
awake state. meaning, our human awake state is not even near properly awake as
we perceive it to be. there is
a more realer more awakener state to be in.
while I'm giggling like a little child still, I thought to myself wait on, should
I look, or will god be disappointed that I don't believe its him. so I said, I
don't need to verify anything as I know what is, but I will look so that incase
anyone asks me or challenges me, I can say to them, yes I looked and I saw all
of this WITH MY EYES - ASWELL.
remember I was facing the right of my room, even when I saw the portal or more
realer more awake clarity open up which was behind me to the left. but I could
see this so clearly already without looking there.
so I turned around and looked at the god cloud, and said ok yes its still
there, now I can tell them that I saw it with my eyes as well, not just my
spirit.
as I kept laughing and feeling awesome, I spoke and said 'oops I better shoosh
it down incase I wake my parents', as my door was wide open, but they didn't wake
up from my soft constant giggling of joy and comfort in the presence of my god,
my grandfather, or as we say in Macedonian 'Dedo-Gospo' (grandpa god).
ok I better keep it down so I don't wake them up.
after about 30mins or so, I fell snuggly asleep.
when I woke up I remembered everything.
I didn't tell anyone for a couple of years. my parents, and 1 friend in
the street.
life being misfortunate and unaccommodating to my needs for the next many years,
specially in the romance way, I wanted a better life, my life was too hard, I
was in depression, and I demanded that things change.
happiness came and gone, and I would regularly get depression, although I
just thought I was sad. this
unhappiness started in high school when I had physical romantic needs, but they
were never met, so I grew up as an adult, rather than a child, and this
loneliness scarred me, even though I enjoyed my own company teaching my self
many things etc, I was lonely like hell and hurting for romance, just 1 partner,
my one and only, I never got him, and the dates I eventually got in my 30s were
not for me, or I was not for them, for no apparent reason other than cold feet
and treating me dishonorably.
so now in my mid 40's I found the book by Anita Moorjani and her book Dying To
Be Me about her near death experience, her brother sent her a link on nderf.org,
and I thought maybe people might be interested in my experience, which is along
the same lines as Anita's, but I didn't have to be ill or operated on to
experience it.
At the time
of your experience was there an associated life-threatening event?
No
Was the experience
difficult to express in words?
No
At what time during the
experience were you at your highest level of
consciousness and alertness? after a about 7 minutes, till it
started fading maybe it had lasted 30 minutes more or less. but I had no track of
time
How did your highest level
of consciousness and alertness during the experience compare to your normal
everyday consciousness and alertness?
More
consciousness and alertness than normal
I could see in 2 directions, AND while
having my eyes closed, without facing in that direction, as clearly as if I
looked there, and I tested myself during the time, I opened my eyes - turned
around - and saw what I was seeing, and it was a waste of time doing it, but I
told myself I will only do this as a form of evidence that my eyes were
originally closed, then I opened them, and saw the same thing, but the awesome
thing is, is that even though I turned my head, my view of everything did not
change because I turned my head, I did not see my view turn as I was turning
towards it, - I could still see it through my head.
I was just as alert as normal as awake, but because
I was having this experience vision etc, I realized that it must be a more awake
state than normal or way more than every one else on earth because its not
normal to see the earth in slow animation from out of space 'while you are lying
down in your bed on that same planet that you're viewing.... meaning I was more
awake than human earth awareness. the things I was viewing were more clearer and
sharper than earth awake state, that was my other source of proof for myself.
and the rest of my room was like in a blur, its like we on earth awake state see
everything in a curtain of blurriness, once this blurriness was moved aside, we
would be able to see what I saw easily without effort
Please
compare your vision during the experience to your everyday vision that you had
immediately prior to the time of the experience.
I was just as alert as normal as awake, but because I was having this experience
vision etc, I realized that it must be a more awake state than normal or way
more than every one else on earth because its not normal to see the earth in
slow animation from out of space 'while you are lying down in your bed on that
same planet that you're viewing.... meaning I was more awake than human earth
awareness. the things I was viewing were more clearer and sharper than earth
awake state, that was my other source of proof for myself. and the rest of my
room was like in a blur, its like we on earth awake state see everything in a
curtain of blurriness, once this blurriness was moved aside, we would be able to
see what I saw easily without effort, and thus I could see the god spirit my
'grandpa god' 'dedo gospo' in Macedonian language. gospo being an ancient
Macedonian origin of the word ghost.
Please
compare your hearing during the experience to your everyday hearing that you had
immediately prior to the time of the experience.
my hearing was normal as earth state, I had no
audio strangeness, but I could hear in my mind consciousness words sentences
conversations thoughts shared to me by the holiness spirit god and all those
loved ones passed over to the other side after death, I could also hear a bit of
a crowd voices because there were so many spirit of people on the other side
watching me
Did you see
or hear any earthly events that were occurring during a time that your
consciousness / awareness was apart from your physical / earthly body?
Yes
as normal - I could hear my parents
snoring in the room next door as our doors were left open. I could see
everything in my room as normal and outside my window.
even though I was lying in my bed in my room, I could see the earth
planet from out of space at the same time. I could finely see cars driving on
roads and people scuttle butting frantically with their dreary over-preoccupied
lives, but in slow motion.
What emotions did you feel
during the experience?
extreme joy laughter giggling like a 6 year old
child running around the house from his parents who are chasing him tickling him
playing. pain free, worry free, FREE, accepted, no judged, comfortable and
comforted, I could feel that I was very special but also by the feelings of all
those that live in the afterlife. happiness and love. carefree, responsible
free, no expectations or obligations, no biblical condemnations, no prejudices,
it was absolutely no issue being gay, I was accepted like every one else, so
much joy that I could barely stop myself laughing, needing to shoosh myself up
because my parents were sleeping.
Did you pass into or
through a tunnel?
Yes
not exactly, my room, or my mental
conscious vision opened up like a portal, like veils of blurry earthling
curtains being tied aside and I could see through that portal window, as if I
was out of space looking down on earth.
but seeing the holy spirit or god, was not in the portal, it was in my
room directly, which came from outside as a green see-through mist.
Did you see an unearthly
light?
Yes
a green mist, which I could also feel as a
presence. which moved into my room at the foot of the bed , shaping itself as a
1m wide 3 headed cloud, with an eye in the middle and rays radiating from it.
Did
you seem to encounter a mystical being or presence, or hear an unidentifiable
voice?
I encountered a definite being, or a voice clearly of mystical or unearthly
origin
yes, clearly, which I saw clearly without looking
at it, as if I was looking at it with my own open eyes. it came to comfort me
and pass the message to me to don't worry about all that bible stuff, that
doesn't
apply to you, that's for them, you don't need to follow all that crap, you're
special, you're loved, you're grandpa gods grandchild and we love you.
Did you encounter or
become aware of any beings who previously lived on earth who are described by
name in religions (for example: Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, etc.)?
Yes
well seeing a 3 headed cloud with an eye
in it and rays coming out of it could only be related to being described as the
holy trinity, therefore the father the son and the holy spirit, but to me it was
just grandpa god, and he was tickling me making me laugh filling me with joy.
but I could also sense slightly see behind them to the left, (their right), so
many spirits watching through their portal enjoying celebrating witnessing this
event with me with fascination, but I couldn't differentiate between them, who
was who, just god Jesus holy spirit as 1 being.. or whatever that was, what it
was it was not important nor relevant,
it belonged to me, to us, we belonged to it equally.
Did
you encounter or become aware of any deceased (or alive) beings?
Yes
I could also sense slightly see behind
them to the left, (their right), so many spirits watching through their portal
enjoying celebrating witnessing this event with me with fascination, but I
couldn't differentiate between them, who was who, just god Jesus holy spirit as 1
being.. or whatever that was, what it was
it was not important nor relevant, it belonged to me, to us, we belonged to
it equally.
Did
you become aware of past events in your life during your experience?
No
Did
you seem to enter some other, unearthly world?
Some unfamiliar and strange place
while I was in my
earthly bed, I was at the same time looking back at the earth through a portal,
or the other way around, the earth served as a blur of veils, that prevent us to
see from our consciousness instead of just our eyes. so I could see cars going
in slow motion and people living their frantic silly judgmental oppressed
conditioned socially forced lives
Did time seem
to speed up or slow down?
Everything seemed to be happening at once; or time stopped or
lost all meaning
it seemed as earth life
slowed down, but it could also mean that my existence sped up to normal speed,
making earthly time slow down in animation
Did
you suddenly seem to understand everything?
Everything about myself or others
I understood some things, but it wasn't
significant, because earthlings put so much unimportant irrelevant importance to
such things, I didn't need to question anything as I was in my homely realm, a
life WAY MORE alive than earth, way more real and permanent, earth life was
merely a kind of bad dream. I understood what was happening to me, I understood
without needing to question who was in my room, and what I was seeing was realer
than real. I had no doubts, I was in knowingness and love, I did not nee to ask
questions as I was heartily pure, I had no conflictions needing to ask what this
was or that was, that was stupid, because knowledge was a connected source
consciousness connected to all of us should we need to communicate something,
there was nothing but life and enjoyment on that other realm.
Did you reach a boundary
or limiting physical structure?
Yes
when we open our earthly eyes, and are awake -
THIS IS NOT AWAKENESS, we as earth eyes see blurry life and blurry existence.
the blurriness was removed for me to see clearly sharper than earth
reality.
Did
you come to a border or point of no return?
No
Did scenes from the
future come to you?
No
During
your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness
suggesting that there either is (or is not) continued existence after earthly
life (“life after death”)?
Yes
compared to the rest of the universe....
we exist in a slow motion dream, like a silly game run by vandals and culprits
full of fear which they label as delusional power strength and dominance and
control and manipulation and sly underhanded trickery and nonsense. I was told
to ignore all those earthly biblical human laws and judgments and hatreds as
they didn't apply to me such as Christian condemnation of gay people and that I
didn't need to do anything what any one told me to do that I didn't want to do
During
your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness that God
or a supreme being either does (or does not) exist?
Yes
the 3 joined clouds with the eye in the
middle and rays coming out of it see-through and green, loved me to the end of
the universe, and told to ignore all
those earthly biblical human laws and judgments and hatreds as they didn't apply
to me such as Christian condemnation of gay people and that I didn't need to do
anything what any one told me to do that I didn't want to do, my instructions
were not to change myself for human society, I was to be the way I was naturally
by god and the universe, and if that meant I was gay, then that's holy and
correct for me. I just knew it was my grandpa god without needing to ask,
needing to ask is an earthly weakness based on fear and stupidity, because I was
encumbered by love and all knowledge.
During
your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness that you
either did (or did not) exist prior to this lifetime?
Yes
mostly just that I was coming to this
earth as a spirit being but not much attention was given to it as it was all
insignificant to me and irrelevant and useless. only things on earth are made
relevant and useful because there are so much people blocked off from knowing
about their human and spiritual
powers that each person has naturally, but is conditioned out from other
controlling bad humans and the rest of human society
During
your experience, did you encounter any specific information / awareness that a
mystical universal connection or unity/oneness either does (or does not) exist?
Yes
our entire existence was mystical and
universal and eternal and full of enjoyment and easy Guinness, none of this
restricted brainwashed earthly human crap
During your experience,
did you encounter any specific information / awareness regarding earthly life’s
meaning or purpose?
Yes
earthly human existence was full of
nonsense and stupidity, irrelevant, cruelty, no justice, falsity, earth human
life was frantic and non-peacefully hysterical, brainwashed existence,
oppressed , restricting constricting very limiting and limited, almost
insignificant, earth humanness was like a bad dream game with unfair human
designed rules forced on others. biblical and religious and political stuff was
so wrong and anti-life and so destructive to life and the human existence and
spirit, that humans didn't know what they were doing living their daily dreary
unholy inhumanly lives, and that I was to disregard them all and live my life as
I saw fit
During your experience,
did you encounter any specific information / awareness regarding earthly life’s
difficulties, challenges, or hardships?
Yes
earthly human existence was full of nonsense and stupidity, irrelevant,
cruelty, no justice, falsity, earth human life was frantic and non-peacefully
hysterical, brainwashed existence,
oppressed , restricting constricting very limiting and limited, almost
insignificant, earth humanness was like a bad dream game with unfair human
designed rules forced on others. biblical and religious and political stuff was
so wrong and anti-life and so destructive to life and the human existence and
spirit, that humans didn't know what they were doing living their daily dreary
unholy inhumanly lives and that I was to disregard them all and live my life as
I saw fit
During your experience,
did you encounter any specific information / awareness regarding love?
Yes
love was everywhere and everything, we are
all together on the other side out side of this blurry earthly human experience,
we are actually on the inside, like in a bubble, but the outside is actually the
real side, where there is only joy and laughter and celebration and togetherness
comfort
During your experience,
did you encounter any other specific information / awareness that you have not
shared in other questions that is relevant to living our earthly lives?
No
Did you have a sense of
knowing special knowledge or purpose?
Yes
just to live my life as I saw fit, from
love and hobbies and fun, and togetherness, inclusiveness and fairness and
niceness, to help each other live together and improve life for everyone, and not
make excuses by singling any one or any thing out. every thing had its needs and
needs should be met with equal importance, because we all exist together here, we
should be respectful and honoring of everyone's likes and dislikes and not judge
What occurred during your
experience included:
Content that was both consistent and not consistent
with the beliefs you had at the time of your experience
I believed that the bible was altered and not true, but the bible stories
included both true and false and probably guessed examples, but that it also had
a lot of ungodly evil in it when it condemned and judged any type of human
considered accused of sin, when we are all forgiven and loved by god
unconditionally. earth life was so important and needed to be followed
obediently strictly, but no it was proved to be all nonsense and hysterical
franticly and so wrong and unimportant
How accurately do you
remember the experience in comparison to other life events that occurred around
the time of the experience?
I remember the experience more accurately than
other life events that occurred around the time of the experience.
I remember some bits n pieces about the day before it happened, watching
the Donahue TV talk show from America, about the woman telling of her out of
body experience when she was dying in surgery.
I cant remember the next day when I woke up, I don't think anything
special happened maybe. but I remember my experience very well
Discuss any changes
that might have occurred in your life after your experience:
even though I continued being religious, it was in
the context INCLUDING my experience and the adjustments in truths that I added.
I remember becoming more extremist, but cant remember if it was before or after
the experience, but not for long as I soon relaxed so much.
My
experience directly resulted in:
Moderate changes in my life
Did you have any changes in your values or beliefs after the experience that
occurred as a result of the experience?
Yes
same as Q-49. and many others. hard to say.
yes in that I could not question its existence even
if I wanted to, or no matter how bad my life got for me, so that was a definite
'insurance'.
loving men was fine, and I was loved by god
totally, loving men was not a sin as in the human world. so if anyone questioned
me, I had my evidence. and whether people accepted it or not was their own
demise
and unjust ignorance without any evidence against me.
also that not to take life on earth so seriously,
even though I still do in a way, because we still face consequences, I cant just
do what I want - all the time, or
sometimes any time. humanity does
not recognize or honor innocence and love and purity, and gives exceptions to the
wrong people.
Do you
have any psychic, non-ordinary or other special gifts after your experience that
you did not have before the experience?
Yes
Australia was in a long drought, and when
I was on holiday, I felt so emotional about all the heavy drenching rain that
tropical Darwin and lush green rich north NSW got, so I cried and blessed
Australia to get regular deep saturating rain roughly every 2 weeks, and it has
been raining mercifully like that from Jan 2020 to July 2020. now I'm in the
process of blessing again, as we've had no rain for a couple of weeks.
apparently I can work with crystals, I can feel
some of their energy.
I can send love and light to people, and clear them
of bad eyes and non-blessings, but I'm still working on what this exactly is.
I'm an empath.
specially during my teens until my early 40s, I would
channel wisdom from the source of the universe, I would be explaining something
to people and then all of a sudden the things I'm saying just come straight out
of my mouth as if I was king Solomon's wisdom or something, I would speak things
I did not know the answers to, and I would help people, or answer peoples
questions, without going into a trance or preparation or anything, it would be
just as easy as talking, and I don't know that its happened until I've finished
saying what I said. or they said.
Are there one or several parts of your experience
that are especially meaningful or significant to you?
I thought it was nice and very special to be selected to be visited by my
spiritual family. after having such a shit excruciatingly lonely life it was the
least they could do. and that has brought me SOME comfort during the many
torturous times.
also the joy and tickling laughing,
even though I wasn't going anywhere, I felt like grandpa god was tickling
me and I was running around like a child.
so I should say that he was chasing me around, but because I was not in a
near death, I was fully awake, my experience intensity wasn't as detailed as
Anita Moorjani's details, otherwise I would have probably suffered some kind of
death in my bed, and there'd be no one to see what's happened to me to take me to
hospital, but also because I didn't have any medical condition either.
Have you ever shared this experience with others?
Yes
I remember at 1st that maybe (because of
my stupid religious superstitions) I didn't think I should tell anybody.
I'm not sure when the 1st telling was, maybe in the
same month? it was a few houses down, she kindly said she believed me,
but her response was very light-footed and doubtful.
I may have told other childhood friends, but I cant
remember, and if so it would have
been only 1 other, during that era
of my life.
I've told my parents, but I cant remember it when.
I don't think I've ever told my brother, he was asleep during the convo when I told
my parents, or maybe he wasn't home, and I don't know if they told him, or if they
told any of their friends, as we didn't have many close relatives in the country,
apart from Melbourne over the phone. that would have been in the same month too.
I've told a cousin or 2 or 3, maybe in the next few
years if the subject came up, I wasn't afraid to.
even today I'm not afraid to, but I don't just blurt
it out, I select who to share it with, I never needed to gloat about it. I've
told my priest who after confession and fasting didn't give me the holy communion
bread and wine, and I thought who are you to refuse me, of that which you are
not even worthy of. but I played the good boy and just let it go. but his action
saw to my unneeded undeserved deep depression getting much worse - now do you
see the evil of humanity? he was a priest of god so-called, yet knew nothing of
his love or mercy etc. the priest
said I saw the devil, and after some questions decided that it was a karmic
thing that my parents may have done which has resulted in my being gay and
lonely etc bla bla bla, more human blind nonsense. that priest destroyed me
inside. I never felt so nothing. this is one of those times in my life where -
if I didn't have my experience, I would have killed myself. (trying not to be
emotional right now).