People ask me what allows me to rise above the pain. For a while, I struggled with an answer.

I believe that tomorrow is the remedy.

Not 24hrs' tomorrow, not 10 years' tomorrow, but eternity's tomorrow. Pain is temporary, but tomorrow is a permanent happening whether you live to see it or not. Because the truth is we live by what we leave behind.

Martin Luther King Jr, Jimi Hendrix, Pablo Picasso.. they don't even know how great they are.

We're all going to be remembered by something when we move onto the next life, so we're all martyrs. I've been intrigued by martyrdom since I was a kid & I always wondered why, but now I'm starting to figure it out.

Isn't it ironic how we'll die for the things we live for? But not for our lives, for the lives of the next.

I'm building a world that I'll never get to see, but knowing that the pain I feel today will die tomorrow ironically allow me to live forever.

I like to look at tomorrow as a cure for pain. The tricky thing is, pain is one of those diseases that becomes immune to our remedies. It adapts & shows its face in a whole new form.

The end of your first love.

Undeserved hate.

Unpaid bills.

World wars.

Getting cut from varsity sports.

Your grandfather's plummeting health.

You best friend's drug addiction.

The faint memory of a guy you call "Dad".

Fear.

The government's lies.

Racism.

The search for inner peace.

The wonders of the untold stories.

Poverty.

Equality.

Oppression. 

Mental imprisonment.

The coming of the inevitable.

The stabbing pain of nostalgia.

Stubbing your pinky toe.

& this is why there will always be a need for tomorrow's martyr. They tell you to live in the present, but how is that possible when time is always ticking.

So what makes me rise above the pain? Knowing for a fact that the children of tomorrow won't feel the same pain. & for that, I'll die for.