Tomorrow

…..I’ll do it tomorrow, she said.  Yes, yes, I’ll put it off until tomorrow.  And if not tomorrow, then the day after that.  Or maybe even the day after that if my motivation is running low.  And then, through some bilious vagary of fortune, circumstances changed on a dime and tomorrow never came.  Tomorrow was no more.  And with the last dying fibrillation of her heart she thought about tomorrow, and of all the tomorrows that would forever be denied her now and in the future.  And she decided right at that moment with her next to last breath that it might be good to lead life with a certain sense of urgency, and that the future was more a mirage than a reality, and that it probably is not a good idea to procrastinate one’s life away assuming a future that is not guaranteed…..