A lot of the time we each walk through our days trying to get through them. We try to keep going. To keep moving in any way that we can. Most times we aren’t focused on what comes next. We’re just focused on finishing what we’re doing. On being done with the first step. Only then, only once that is finished, once that “step” is gone do we actually pause to consider that there could be another possibility. That’s just the world we live in. We live in the now, and sometimes, if we’re lucky enough, if we have the privilege, we look to tomorrow. 

Not many people have a tomorrow in this world. Not many people can have the opportunity to look to the next sunrise. But we do. That said, why are we ruining each other? Look around you, is anyone happy? Is anyone reveling in riches or swimming in piles of money? They’re not. The truth is that everyone is scared. Everyone is tired. But most of all? Everyone is done looking for tomorrow. In a country  where tomorrow is supposed to be guaranteed people have stopped expecting it. People instead are reduced to being scared of exploding Tesla bombs, of brainwashed people driving trucks into crowds, of strange men with bad intentions, of even grabbing the door handle to a car. I graduate this year. I officially exit the small world I have grown up in and enter that of the rest of the adults around me. To say I am terrified is not even broaching the smallest toe of my fears, it is instead touching the water around it and jumping out in response to the ice-cold sensation such a touch has instilled. You’d think I was terrified of the people around me, or of the world itself, but I’m not… I’m terrified at the idea that we have stopped believing in tomorrow. Because today I am only a child, but tomorrow I can change the world. If there’s no tomorrow, how can I do that? 

I once believed there was no tomorrow too, I once was hopeless and lost. It took me a while to see the sunrise. But, after a couple of early mornings I understood, tomorrow is not dependent upon the words we put into it, it is not reliant upon the hopes we place in it, it does not care for any of this, tomorrow is determined by the hope we put in today. It is determined by the words we put in today. It is determined by the work we put in the day we live in. That is where tomorrow comes from. That is where we find the true answer to the fear everyone lives in. 

That said, we all should look to tomorrow, we should all work for it. If we don’t, if we ignore it, we risk losing everything. So I implore you, all of you, all of us, let’s work for tomorrow. Let’s earn it. That way it’ll never have an excuse to abandon us.