Find Your Anchor

Hey everyone

I hope you guys are all keeping warm with your blankets and some nice hot chocolate.

I was watching The Fosters the other day, which happens to be one of my favourite series and there was one scene that really caught my attention. Before I explain what happened in the scene, I just want to give you a brief description of the show.

Police officer Stef Foster and Vice Principal Lena Adams are the parents of Brandon Foster, Stef’s biological son from her previous marriage, and twins Jesus and Mariana, who were adopted as children. Lena went over to Juvi where 16 year old Callie Jacobs was because of an incident that occurred at her previous foster home and with much hesitation decided to take Callie to her home. Since Callie had just come out of Juvi, her personality was still a bit rough and she had a lot of trust issues and so that made it hard for Lena and Steph to accept her into their family fully. Eventually Callie’s little brother Jude comes into the mix and changes things up because now that she has Jude she finally feels like she can trust somebody and comes out of her shell a little bit. Callie and Jude have been in many different foster homes, but when they are placed with the Fosters, things begin to happen.

This series has a lot of ups and downs, there is drama, romance breakups and a lot of life lessons but the most important thing you learn when you watch this show is that being a part of a loving family is really important and means everything.

So going back to the beginning of this post, I was saying that there was a scene that really captured my full attention. Jude had to do an assignment for school on finding your own anchor and he decided that his anchor was the Fosters. He said that all of his life him and Callie had been bumped to many different Foster homes and none of them were any good, the people were not good people and so they did not really have the best childhood as they grew up with no parents because their mother died when they were young and their father is in jail because of her death as he is accused of being the one that killed her. So Jude was saying that now that he has met the Fosters and has finally become a part of their family fully, he feels like he has met his anchor, the one constant thing that is keeping him grounded and stopping him from floating away.

I began to think and I realised that my anchor would also be my family because no matter what is happening in my life whether good or bad, my family is always there to support me, I know that I can tell them anything and they will not judge me only give me support when I need it.

What is your anchor and why is it so important to you ?