People say that blood is thicker than water. That the family you are born into should always come before friends. Because friends will come and go, just like the tide, but I will never stop loving the ocean. The waves that crash onto my feet may be composed of different drops of water, and when they decend I can't even be certain the sames drops will return, but I do know that those bodies of water kept me afloat even when my blood turned to lead. My blood stream has never been pure, I started injesting poison by the time I was 4 years old. The empty viles remind me of just how thick my blood has been, so thick that it almost stopped coursing through my veins. It wasn't until I took a leap into the water that I was able to wash away the pain. People may say that blood is thicker than water, but I say that without water, no one can survive.