I Went To A Rainforest !

I once found myself deep in the Gambboa rainforest in the country of Panama. This was a humid rainforest with lots of different plants and wildlife and animals. And we're on a tour seeing it all. And we are checking out the elements, the animals of this rainforest. And then the guide stopped and we're about to enter the part of the rainforest where there were lots of poison dart frogs. Now, poison dart frogs are the single most poisonous animal on Earth. There's enough poison in each of these little frogs to kill 20 humans easily. Now, luckily, their poison only works if you ingest it, but looking at them or even touching them is completely safe. So, we're about to check them out when the tour guide turned to the group and said something I'll never forget. He said, "There's a golden rule in nature. The brighter and more neon an animal is, the more dangerous and poisonous it is. These poison dart frogs, each with its neon blue and green and orange color, is telling it its wouldbe predators, "Don't chase me cuz I'm in nothing but trouble." That is how the animal world operates. If an animal is loud and neon usually means you should stay far away. And then it hit me. People are the exact same. We live in a world that is wired to run after loud people. people with neon colored lives, huge homes, over-the-top cars, provocative, ridiculously priced clothing, and we naively follow and aspire and chase such people. But they are no different than the rest of nature. The bolder the colors often means the more dangerous that person can be. The louder the outfit, the more eye-catching the car, the more outrageous the accessories, the more poisonous that person might be to you and your spiritual health. The $900 heels, the $24,000 watch saying, "Look at me and approve me and validate me." That's not just fashion. Those are warning signs. They are broadcasting to the world that behind the glitter is a is a quiet truth saying keep your distance cuz there's chaos here that you do not want to inherit. You didn't chase chasers. We follow depth. We follow people who are whole inside, who don't need noise to prove worth. Who don't need to wear their value. They live their value. Kazal said it in Pavos. Chase honor and it will run from you. chase from from honor and it runs after you because people begging for validation are empty. But the ones who know his worth is unshakable. That's who we are meant to be. The people who see through the neon lights of this shallow world and find the truth buried underneath it. Because here's the raw truth. When you chase the world, you become small. When you stop chasing, when you stand in your ems, in the Uranama, in your mission, something flips. You don't need attention anymore. Attention finds you. That's who the Jewish people are. Not the chasers, but the ones worth chasing.