When did "tomorrow" stop being an exciting word? I remember being a little kid and thinking it was one of the coolest words. It was so elusive, and unpredictable, and it held so much possibility! Anything could happen tomorrow, you just never knew. It could be the day I got a new book, or made a new friend, or the unicorns came to visit, or the day I got to walk to the store for stamps and spend the change on candy... Big things, little things, it didn't matter, it was all interesting.
Now tomorrow just looks like a long string of days ahead that look remarkably like the days preceding. Or else it's filled with a list of things to accomplish. It's followed with "I have to..." instead of "I get to.."
Sure, every so often there's something to look forward to; Tomorrow my sister gets here, tomorrow I get to go visit my family, tomorrow I get to see a show, tomorrow I have the day off, and so on. I find I look forward to those days so far in advance that they come and go far too quickly. Instead of tomorrow I'm busy looking forward to two weeks from now, a month from now, six months from now...
I feel like I miss today a lot. And I definitely miss the idea of "tomorrow".
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