 I think being believed in when you feel an absence of that in your life is huge in its effect on our humanity. One of the greatest gifts of a mentor into our lives is someone believing in us and you all know how difficult those people are to find especially when you're attempting something new or unusual or different or outside the box in your life or in your family or in your culture and I was trying to attempt many of those things so to find someone that had a like-mindedness and someone that championed the things that I felt alone in were a huge price this gift to me it was guidance it was stability it was clarity bringing rather than what I'd usually had was been people being threatened by it or shutting it down or who do you think you are or that's crazy or even worse silence and indifference so I have been so helped all of my life when I look back and and intentionally pick over these people that believed in me at a time when no one did