"Pain The Mentor"

You do not hurt me. I embrace you. Your attacks teach me how to become more agile, observant. less forgetful and driven. You do not rule me, nor control my state of mind, for it is you that helps me grow. Pain..without you I grow strong and then become ruined by your presence, with you I grow strong and become stronger, from learning how to study the intricacies of deceit, harm and motive. Your intrinsic ways that crawl up on me, allow me to become observant in my life, and accustomed to the surprise that hatred brings upon me. Thank you pain for continuing to try to crush my very breath, so I learn to appreciate the very same thing. Thank you for making me who I am today, and please step up your intensity because you are what one would call the best mentor. People of success speak wonders of you, while people with a lack of speak horrid of your name. I embrace you, and welcome you to my life with open arms, because I am now no longer afraid of the very obstacle that brings most to their knees. Make me cry, beg for my life, starve and long for family. It is these very events that teach me how to stand tall without those very things. Pain....you are my friend. Pain...you are my confidant. Pain....you are my mentor.

Thank you.