**"Life" Caught up with me**

"You will never come to any good!" Yelled my neighbor. "You are living life too fast. One day life will catch up to you."she concluded.
Ahhh these boring people, I thought. "They just don't know how to live life on the wild side".
That experience was back in 1986, little did I know that my neighbors words will one day come true!

Struck by reality
The sound of a baby's laughter, smells of fresh body powder
...baby powder.
Oh that's it, my girlfriend just gave my daughter a bath, nice smell to wake up too. But my stomach is growling. I haven't eating in a long time, was on the streets for a few days.
I have a hangover, my head hurts, I am hungry, what's there to eat?
Nothing I did not buy groceries, what's next?
This is the day, this is the day we have to leave our home.
Were can we go? No one will take us in, we have too many issues.

She looked into my eyes
I stood in the center of our living room, feeling lost.
This was the first time in my life that I was in a situation I didn't know how to get out off.
I always have a plan. But now I was not alone. I had 2 persons to take care of.
Holding my head I gave way to tears. How can we survive this?
I just want to die! Just disappear. Run away from it all. But I could not..not now..I loved my daughter too much.
Then I turned to look at her in her crib.
She looked up at me, she looked deep into my eyes and soul. She seemed to be saying , " papa don't give up! Not now I need you!"
Tears streamed down my face like a rive flowing from the mountains after a rain storm.
" Papa don't know what to do, I don't have a home for you any more" I sobbed.
Then it struck me!

They owed me
I remember a company that owed me money. If I can get them to pay me what they owed, maybe I can send my family off the island to my girlfriend family who lived in the Dominican Rep.
So I payed them a visit.

Anger
They wont happy to see me. They knew they owed me money. Its been a long time. Now is the time to pay up.
The manager refused to write me a check. Even though l pleaded to her that i really needed the money.
She started screaming at me that I should leave.
Then the volcano erupted!
I started thrashing the office, to my later embarrassment!
When i was done, I could not believe what i did. "I am loosing control" I thought.
However they did write me my check..finally.

Goodbyes
So, I gave my girlfriend the cash. They were to travel back to her parents house. If she got worse with her illness at least they will be able to take better care of her...much better than I could.
They could also take care of my most precious possession, my baby girl.

Fond memories

Our relationship ended that day. My girlfriend should move on with her life. Forget about me, take care of our daughter. They both deserved a better life.
So we said good bye!

What happen next?

Did I really give up?

Who came to my rescue?

Guess i will tell you in the next post!

Caribbeanmon 👊