There may come a time in your life when you meet someone who will never let go and whom you can't erase. No matter the circumstances. 


That individual will ride the wave regardless of how many times the surf board 🏄🏾 comes from beneath their feet. 

When that moment comes, reflect back on all those moments when people came to visit just for a season🍃 and think ahead to those who have supported you when they left and up to where you are now. 

I thought of my life and environment as a fish tank. I had fish that came, went and stayed. I had all different types of fish living in my habitat: some were eating some to get to the top of the food chain, some were there to just look good but served no purpose, I had some there to guide me to cleaner areas of the tank, I had some that guided me and tried to keep me in the dirtiest areas of the tank. I had ones that fought hard to keep my tank clean; holding on to the glass, cleaning up my environment and remaining in my habitat through the rough waters and fresh waters.  

When it came time to cleaning my environment of unfit people those who were around just for a season, who had used me to benefit them, were put in a bucket and poured down the sewers. When I lifted that  bucket up and looked inside, remaining was an algae eater. That algae eater remained inside the bucket holding on for the sake of its life. I put that algae eater back in my tank. 

That algae eater has always served its purpose regardless of how many times its water and environment had changed. That algae eater fought hard to keep my system clean; holding on to me for dear life, cleaning up my environment and remaining in my habitat during the toughest times and during the greatest times.  

Find you a support system that you can consider Algae Eaters, don't think of them as being dirty and living in filth, think of them as being those individuals that will accept you as God sees you, made perfect in his image and likeness and who will remain in your tank no matter how many fishes leave. My son's mother is one of those Algae Eaters I have in my tank of support. 

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