I love the framing there of, you know, it sounds like in London, you were reacting against your environment. So your work was a reaction fundamentally. So you're running almost away from something. And then when you were in an environment like Japan, where you didn't have that adversity, you could be for something instead of being not something. 100% yeah.

Totally. And I think that transition was really amazing and it made me be more open because coming from where I was from that you weren't exposed to a lot, you know, you're not exposed to different languages or culture or food or smells and people. And then so now living in Japan at that time, everything's different. And so it makes you more open to explore and try things and that's when I first ended up doing like a 10 day vipassana meditation retreat. And that was amazing because day eight, like my hearing just got so much better. And I realized like my whole life, I'd been suppressing my hearing to just survive. Like I just dialed down all my senses and was like pretty numb. But then after like doing this really intense meditation there, I realized that when everything like kind of came back to like level, I was like, oh, wow, like for the first time I felt my heartbeat in my chest. And I realized I'd never in my whole life felt my heartbeat in my chest because I dialed down my senses to survive. I realized that I couldn't really hear that great before until my hearing came back because I dialed down my hearing and my senses just to survive. And so like I'm so grateful and fortunate that I ended up in Japan and in a culture that allowed me to just open up a little bit more and explore these things and find meditation and find really drawing again and like dig deeper into like who I am. How long were you in Japan for? Five years. Yeah.

And then you've been in the States now for

a decade? Probably more like 13 years, something like that.

I do like America.

It is what it is. You know, I live here and it's home and I've been here for longer than almost I've been in many other places. You know, it has its struggles and everything, but also like Japan, I'm not from here. So a lot of the rules that exist here and a lot of the culture that exists here, I don't have to partake in it because I'm not from it. And I think you have that extra layer of freedom as a foreigner from the UK here where you can ignore certain things, you know.

All right.