Tomorrow

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Tomorrow is the day after today; it is in the near future. In everyday speech tomorrow speaks not only of a single day but of some era that is not today and has not yet occurred.

In popular culture the vision of the abstract tomorrow can be a positive one: "I'll get around to it tomorrow," "my ship will come in tomorrow," "the sun will come out tomorrow." There can be negative emotions attached to tomorrow as well, perhaps related to future justice, judgement, or revenge. One implication of tomorrow is that an opportunity for change, action, or redemption still remains; that the seemingly endless cycle of time will continue.

The literal tomorrow is usually not so romanticized. "The rent is due tomorrow;" "Tomorrow is my last day on the job" - but whether a specific use of the word is to be understood as literal or abstract is not always clear.

It is said by some "Tomorrow never comes" because each day that passes is still today when it gets here.

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Songs and literature make great use of the obvious issue that the abstract tomorrow never comes. When the day after today arrives, then that day becomes today. Likewise the imminency of death (or other undesired events) gets quite a bit of play: "We may as well eat and drink, for tomorrow we die." (Isaiah 22:13; Luke 12:19-20)

According to many Holocaust survivors, saying "tomorrow" in one of the concentration camps was a slang term for "never."[citation needed]

Tomorrowland is a future-themed area in many of Disney's Magic Kingdom-style theme parks.

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