All of Life is but One Day

Time does not truly exist as we commonly understand it. There is no reset, no refresh, no discrete beginning and end to “days,” “years,” or “tomorrows.” These are constructed concepts—linguistic tools designed to help humans organize and communicate experience. In reality, life is continuous. It does not restart at midnight, on January 1st, or at the beginning of a new year. There is only one uninterrupted stream of existence.

We behave as though time arrives in segments: this year, next year, tomorrow. As if a new unit of time brings with it a clean slate or additional chances. But that perception is an illusion. There is only this life, unfolding continuously, and when it ends, it ends completely. There is no second “day.”

The idea of “tomorrow” does not physically exist. There is only today—now—extended forward in a continuous flow. When people say “I’ll do it tomorrow,” they are referring to a conceptual marker on this same uninterrupted stream. Tomorrow is not a separate container of time waiting to be entered; it is merely a label we assign to a later point in the same ongoing moment.

Procrastination depends entirely on the belief that there is another day coming—a Day Two—to which action can be deferred. But if time is understood as one continuous “today,” that assumption collapses. When “today” ends, life ends. Under this model, there is no meaningful distinction between past, present, and future as separate entities—only different positions within the same day.

In this sense, everything is imminent. What we call the future is not distant; it is simply nearby on the same continuum. Life feels short because it is not composed of many days—it is composed of one.

Seen this way, a human life resembles a single day on a calendar. There is a beginning (birth), time that has already passed (the past), the current moment (the present), the remaining hours (the future), and finally the end (death). These are the only real divisions. There is no second day waiting after this one concludes.

Under this model, procrastination becomes irrational. It assumes the existence of a “Day Two,” but there is only Day One. The game of life is played once, in a single uninterrupted session. Therefore, everything that matters must be anticipated, planned, and acted upon within this one day.

The logical conclusion is simple: do things now. Not later, not “tomorrow,” but now—because physically, there is no tomorrow. We have one day on this Earth, and it is already in progress.

(written by Me, polished by ChatGPT 5.2)

All Life in One Life.

I am writing a book, or is it a play, where the main theme is that all life is worth living, that you may find meaning in the life you live now, that there is no "correct" way to live life, no better or worse way, and that everyone should not be pursuing the same life that society has rendered as "the best", because there isn't such a thing. What you have now, is a perfectly fine way to live, and a perfectly valuable way. 

In the beginning, the protag looks around and sees his mundane life, his small household, a wife, a nine to five job, but nothing else. He dreams of the life he has been told is "good" and feels disappointed that he isn't there. He wonders what it would be like to live another life?

Instead of being transported to a parallel universe where he is living that life (like as in Everything Everywhere All At Once), he goes back in time, to his ancestors, who have all lived the lives that he has dreamed of (kings, knights, farmers, wealthy businessman, craftsman, etc), and to make it clear which generation he is currently experiencing, we can name everyone something life "Li the third, or Li the sixteenth". This is sort of life that quote from 无问东西 where the mother says "all that you aspire has been acquired by your ancestors, whether it's fame in battle or great wealth."

[this is where each chapter could be a different life.]

In the end, the protag travels to the future, where he meets his grandchildren, someone who is either just like him but found peace in life, or maybe someone he sought to be. And realizes, not only that his current life is good. But his future life may not be as bad as I thought. And not only that, but he realizes that human civilizations are not built in one generation, that his role in history, in the course of human civilization, that he may not be the once to shine light a diamond, but it's because of people like him that his later generations can. 

And with that, he finds meaning in what he does everyday once again.

(now critics may say that this is a form of self hypnosis. I... don't think so, but rather telling yourself you must be something, is not the right things to do. It will lead (statistically) to most people overinflating their expectations, and thus disappointed in their own life. And those who can do something, will do something. And that we must accept that people from all walks of life, are equally valid in their choice of lifestyle. There is ... fine line between healthy worldview and self-hypnosis to tolerate an inferior circumstance.)