Life is full of lessons if you pay attention and take in what is going on around you.  This past week my lessons have been painful, yet in the same breath,meaningful.  They have been lessons that I'll never forget especially when it comes to business and friendship.  So what exactly did I learn?  Well....the first lesson is that the main people who claim that they want to help you are really against you.  I've learned that the crabs who are currently in the barrel with me are determined to hold me down as I try desperately to get the hell out. I've learned that no matter how honest you are with everyone else there is still that one person who will sit there and lie in your face without blinking an eye.  A bold faced liar as my mama would have called them. The last lesson that I learned this week was that nobody is going to be as passionate about your dreams like you.  That if you want that dream to become a reality it is your responsibility to do whatever it takes. This week ended with me doing a lot of crying, soul searching, and trying to regroup on so many levels.  There was nobody there to pick up the pieces, pat me on the back or assure me that things would get better.  By Friday night I was ending the day with my middle finger raised high in the air.  Yes, I was finally there, I just didn't care.  Yet I rose on Saturday morning, willing to give it all one more try.  As the saying goes by Maya Angelou...but still, like air, I'll rise.