What Is Approaching But Never Arrives?
May 27, 2025
How many of you are good with riddles? Dating back thousands of years, these mind puzzles I find captivating. A combination of wit, creativity, smarts, some book knowledge and a desire to solve them, teach each of us valuable lessons. In other moments the riddles are amusing.
With the new Mission Impossible movie out, I decided last night, in rare form, to watch the last iteration that led into the new release. Within this film was the following riddle, that Benji needed to solve to detonate a bomb. It went:
"what is always approaching but never arrives"?
The answer: tomorrow
We will start, but tomorrow. We put off. We delay. This message is central to my life as a recovering procrastinator. As Steven Pressfield writes, “its not that I won't write the symphony," but we say "I’ll, do it tomorrow."
That is the most egotistical thing to say. How arrogant are we? Tomorrow is not promised as they say. A fool is always getting ready...
I have a friend that I love dearly. But I have had to distance myself and focus more on my progress than his. My friend is always planning, always getting ready. He is always researching, and coming up with visions. But he lacks the one key driver - action. One night over cigars he wanted to "brainstorm." I told him, "in my home library we go in to work. Not continue brainstorming." Maybe I was a bit harsh, but thinking must be followed by action. TODAY, not tomorrow.
It never actually arrives.