Tomorrow already started.

You are not in tomorrow yet.

There is no email, no calendar, no room you need to be in.

And still, part of you is rehearsing the first meeting. Opening the inbox you have not opened. Checking what is first thing in the morning, one more time.

The day after this one has already started, somewhere inside, before this one has been allowed to end.

Anticipation borrows from tonight to pay tomorrow.

Anticipatory thinking is not loud. It does not announce itself.

It simply takes the part of you that would have arrived into the evening, and quietly spends it on a day that has not yet begun.

By the time the morning arrives, some of it has already been spent.

The day after rarely needs to be rehearsed tonight.

Tomorrow is rarely changed by being thought about at eleven o'clock the night before.

It is changed by being met, the next morning, by someone who actually arrived into their evening first.