Why do we assume there's a tomorrow?

[Comaa]

I'm conflicted about how easy it is for most people to speak about their tomorrows: "I'll do this tomorrow", "I'll see you next week", "I can't wait for this event, it's gonna be in a month."
What if there is no tomorrow? Why is it so easy to claim one for some? Don't they have this constant little thought at the back of their heads, that anything could happen during that time?

I'm not sure, maybe it's just me who thinks about death too much. It just seems bizzare to me, this certainty toward time, as much as I think I understand it.

 

[MonkeyButter]

Its human nature to deny ones mortality. That's why so many fools believe in religion and raise children. Most are unable to accept just how temporary we are and will do ANYTHING to avoid thinking about it.

 

[Carrot]

Why wouldn't they? You can look at average human lifespan and it would be correct to assume that it's more likely that there will be a tomorrow.

What if they assume no tomorrow, spend all their money and they it turns out that tomorrow exists? What do you expect, want people to do?

 

[DeathSweetDeath]

Most people (who aren't knowingly at death's door) do not have that constant thought, no, and it honestly sounds a bit like OCD to me.

 

[violetforever]

because theres unfortunately always been a tomorrow in the entire 25 years ive lived so far lol

 

[Pluto]

 

[Comaa]

Why wouldn't they? You can look at average human lifespan and it would be correct to assume that it's more likely that there will be a tomorrow.

What if they assume no tomorrow, spend all their money and they it turns out that tomorrow exists? What do you expect, want people to do?

It's not necessarily me wanting people to do anything about it, or reflect on their morality, or go wild with whatever they have because all of us will eventually walk through death's doorsteps. I'd say this is a personal thought of mine, and I'm honestly glad that most people don't tend to linger on the possibility of an incoming death. I guess this is just me thinking about it too much, or being suicidal, and maybe that's why I find it so conflicting that the majority of humans don't even take death into a thought unless directly faced with it, because after all life is an unpredictable source. You never know if the next day might change your fate or end it by a bizzare accident, workplace disaster, an illness diagnosis, or by your own, or another's, hand.