It was like that every other day. My alarm clock didn't sound yet, I woke up on my own. Sunlight filtered through the window and enveloped my bed in golden light. Now, exceptionally, I didn’t mind not making the shutter yet. I didn’t really feel like getting up, so I just spun until I tangled in the blanket. As I tried to get out of the choking embrace of the striped bedding, I rolled off the bed and hopped big on the floor. I gathered all my strength, stood up, shook myself as an alarm clock, scratched my neck, and stood helplessly over my messy bed. Why do I sort it out? I arranged the bedding yesterday as well, I will take it tomorrow as well. Then it will be messy again. I got dressed, brushed my teeth, prepared for online school. I turned on my laptop. I looked at the clock in the corner of the tray, then my eyes wandered lower, looking for the date. It wasn't there. It's completely gone. Neither year or month or day. I tried to remember what it was yesterday, but nothing. As if it wasn’t yesterday, neither the day before yesterday, or the day before. Only today. No problem, I thought I'd check it on my phone. But the date disappeared from there as well. So I walked around the whole house looking for the date. But I didn't find it anywhere. There were only blank pages on the calendar, and they shone lightly with their whiteness. You don't know what the date it? No problem, it will be tomorrow's today. But I really wanted to know the date. I rang the door next door where the neighbor opened the door. "Sorry to bother you, can you tell me what the date is?" I felt stupid. Yet who asks such a thing? The neighbor kept frowning, thinking. “Oh, I don’t really remember” he said, then shouted into his house at his wife what day it was today. The wife replied, "I don't know, darling. I cooked and washed yesterday, I still cook and wash today." I said goodbye to that and went home. I didn’t understand how I could have lost so much of my sense of time. I wrote a message to my girlfriends in our groupchat but they said they don’t know why, but their phone doesn’t show a date either. They were not bothered by it. While I was just shaking my head and trying to decipher what day it was, they accepted that there was no date today. After all, today is like tomorrow, it is quite similar to yesterday. Yesterday… really, what happened yesterday? I do not remember. Did I plan something for tomorrow? Hardly, since my calendar is empty. What is my job today? I think the same as every other day. Cause our today is really just the day before our great tomorrow. Yesterday was just the day before tomorrow, I reassured myself. I'm sure it's just some technical bug or something, and I'll ask the family members when they get home. I was restless all day and couldn’t even pay attention in class. Everything that has been said has already been said yesterday and will be captured tomorrow. My afternoon was spent in quiet thinking, and I had already gotten to the point where I tougt, that I'm probably in a time lapse known from science fiction. It also turned in my head that I was just dreaming about it all, but the fall I rolled out of bed in the morning was pretty real. Or did I bang my head and now hallucinate? By the time the others got home in the evening, I no longer knew what to think. I went to my dad and asked “What is today’s date?”. He replied, “I don’t know my little girl, I had a lot of work, I’m tired”. Poor was always tired, tired of daily work. That’s why I asked my mother “What is today’s date?” For which she is “I don’t know baby, look at the clock”. I wanted to explain to her that the trouble was that nothing showed the date when I noticed the little gray hair on her forehead. She, too, is tired of everyday life. I didn’t want to bother my mother either, so I asked my brother the question, which I repeated like a parrot. However, now I didn’t specifically ask about the date, but what he did today."I broke up with my girlfriend," he replied. For some reason, I clearly remembered that they had just reunited yesterday, and I told him that. He replied, "Yes, but we broke up today, but we love each other, so we'll be a couple again tomorrow." "And then you break up again?" -I asked. "I think so," came his monotonous response. "Why?" I asked, to which he replied that this has always been the case, is and will be. Does not change. I got nervous. How can they all be so calm when they don’t even know the date? I also rang our other neighbor, where a young guy opened the door. He was familiar, but we've never talked before. "Hi, don't you happen to know what today's date is?" "I do not know." he said, and I was just about to say goodbye and go home to think further, when he called after me, "Why do you want to know the date?". "Because I haven't seen it anywhere today, and I don't know what day it is today." I replied. “Does it matter at all? You will get up tomorrow morning anyway and experience the same day as you do today. If you hadn’t noticed today that the date was missing, you wouldn’t have cared at all. Do you understand?". I wasn’t sure I understood what he was saying, but I nodded and then went home. Was he right? If I hadn’t noticed by accident in the morning that the date was missing, I wouldn’t have missed it. I didn’t have to know the date, just that today is today, tomorrow will be tomorrow, and it will be followed by another day. My parents will get home tired every day and my brother will come together with his girlfriend every day and then break up. Every day will be the same, and that date won’t change that either. Today will be tomorrow's yesterday. And the day after tomorrow will be quite similar to yesterday.
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