Many people live with a quiet assumption that tomorrow will be better.
Tomorrow I will have the energy.
Tomorrow I will be motivated.
Tomorrow I will do the thing I have put off for weeks.
Tomorrow I will finally feel ready.
There is great comfort in tomorrow.
Tomorrow is gentle. It asks nothing of you now. It allows you to postpone confrontation without admitting that you are postponing anything at all.
It creates distance between you and the life you are living. It allows your current situation to be endured rather than confronted.
Today becomes survivable because it is framed as temporary.
A necessary phase.
A holding pattern.
Something you pass through, not something you agree to stay in.
You tell yourself a story that is calm and palatable, because more often than not reality is neither.
Reality is messy.
Incoherent.
Unclear.
It does not arrive with clear instructions or moral certainty. It does not tell you what to do next. It simply presents itself, unfinished and unresolved.
Tomorrow smooths that out.
Tomorrow turns ambiguity into a story. It replaces uncertainty with sequence. First this, then that, and eventually everything will make sense.
Tomorrow becomes a promise that keeps the present intact.
It explains away the tiredness.
The restlessness.
The subtle dissatisfaction that never fully resolves.
The feeling that something is slightly off, but never dramatic enough to justify disruption.
Not wrong enough to demand action.
Just uncomfortable enough to justify delay.
Tomorrow gives meaning to discomfort without requiring change.
And as long as tomorrow exists, today does not have to be questioned.
Ask yourself this if you want to break the pattern:
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