Little Orphan Annie sang, albeit to our great annoyance, about the virtues of tomorrow. Its promise of another sunrise in the midst of a gloom condition. Tomorrow is the great unknown. We don't know what will happen. Who will we meet or run into? What adventure awaits me when I leave my home? Tomorrow provides us hope, yet another chance and do-overs, and it gives us opportunities to correct mistakes, make amends and get it right. It is tomorrow which makes yesterday a memory and today tolerable.
Tomorrow, what a horrible word.
Thomas Jefferson once said, "Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today." It allows us to procrastinate. It is our greatest excuse for not doing, being and accomplishing. We assume tomorrow will be there for us to do what we're not doing today. Our unfulfilled today morphs into a tomorrow filled with today's leftovers, as well as work of its own. Tomorrow robs us of the today that is to come.
What do your tomorrows look like?
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