So me and my friend are just chilling in a villa that we rented across the country from
where we normally stay in Florida and it's raining.
And in our villa it's just, it's a screen and porch and then it's overlooking a lake.
So there's like a little pond in the middle with some very nice greenery and it's a very
nice area.
So it's kind of like a circle of villas surrounding a pond in the middle.
And then there's kind of like this mountain thing with a bunch of greenery and trees and
stuff all over it, like this kind of rock like formation with like a waterfall flowing
down.
And we're both kind of chilling.
It's about to be bedtime.
So we're just chilling, winding down and we're both journaling.
Just enjoying our, enjoying ourselves.
And we're looking into this pond and it starts raining and it actually starts down pouring
really quick like the heavy kind of down pouring like shh.
And so we're just kind of enjoying ourselves, still journaling and this idea pops up into
my head.
I look at him and I'm like, you want to do something crazy?
And I think he knew exactly what I was trying to say because I started to take off my shirt
and we started sprinting.
We both raced out the door and running barefoot and shirtless with nothing but shorts on.
We just sprinted straight out the door and ran around our villa all the way into the
rain onto that little hill, that little mountain kind of thing.
And we, it was not like somewhere that pedestrians are allowed to be or at least not like expected
to be or they shouldn't necessarily be there because there was a sidewalk and then it was
just like a bunch of bushes and trees and then you like go up and then it's like the
hill.
But it's like a forest in between the sidewalk and the hill kind of thing.
And so we literally just like kind of push our way through and walk over all the like
the brush and the bushes and all that stuff.
And it's raining and we're starting to get like mud all over our feet.
And it's, it's an awesome experience.
And we get to that top of that like mountain kind of thing overlooking the pond and we
just sit down and we literally just, we literally just sit there, crisscross apple sauce at the
top of the mountain and then just, just sit there and watch.
We're getting soaked by rain, but we're just sitting there.
And I'm starting to get a little chilly because even though it is Florida, it's like rain
and it's starting to get nighttime.
So I'm getting a little chilly, but I'm just chilling because that's such a cool vibe.
It's such a cool experience.
And we kind of like do this meditation for a little bit.
And then I remember this one instance where I just kind of got up and I kind of felt the
urge to do this because I remember seeing this image of like the lion king standing
on top of the rock overlooking like the entire kingdom.
And I just did this.
I like sat on the edge of the, of the mountain and literally just did this.
And it was so cool.
I felt like a beast.
So I did that for a little bit.
And then I kind of like just my mind was like extremely calm.
I was like tranquil, I found peace in the midst of the storm.
And then once we were starting to get like, okay, it's time.
It's like, we've had enough of this.
We, me and my friend Franklin, we walk like we actually, we like walked back down and
then we start to go in the house, but then I feel another urge.
I'm like, you want to do another crazy thing.
And so there's this tree right here that is not really one that someone, actually it is
a climbing tree.
So we literally just climbed this tree and we just sit there in the rain.
We're getting downpoured and we're getting all like muddy and our hands are full of like
bark and all that like the stuff, like kind of mud like tree bark from the rain.
And we're just sitting there.
Just enjoying our time in the middle of the rain.
Two dudes shirtless barefoot sitting on top of a tree shirtless.
And by the way, it's not just rain.
It's a thunderstorm.
It's like lightning.
So like this scene and the scene from the mountain was extremely awesome.
That's something I didn't tell you.
It was so cool because I was literally sitting on top of the edge of the mountain like this
and it was thundering and it was lightning.
I could literally see the whole sky like light up.
It was sick.
And then once we got to the tree, I kind of got a little nervous because of all the like,
you know the image where it's like the lightning strikes the tree and then it turns like literally
into char.
I kind of like was thinking about that image while I was up there, but we're both just sitting
on top of that tree and there was lightning going all over the place.
Thunder like loud cracks of thunder and then lightning is awesome.
So we stayed up there for a little bit.
And then after like a couple minutes of this, I started to get really cold.
I was like shivering at this point because I got like, I don't know if it's low body
fat or it's just like not very tolerant to cold or like more susceptible to cold.
I don't know.
But I just got cold.
And so we just started to get inside and we both like quickly showered off and rinsed
off and then we put a towel and we just like sat back where we began at the table like
in the screened in porch.
And we just sat there and we just both got out of the shower.
So we weren't like dressed.
All we were wearing was a towel around us.
But we were just sitting there, just sitting in our chairs, just watching the thunder and
the lightning or watching the lightning, hearing the thunder and just watching the rain fall
down and listening to it.
The peace.
And the funniest part of it or the most interesting part actually is there was a duck in the middle
of the pond the entire time.
Just chilling.
Now that duck is a story for another time.
So I'll be, I'll be sharing that story over, I don't know when, but I will definitely be
sharing that story because there is something very unique about that duck.
So stay tuned if you want to learn about that duck.