A very popular song from the musical Annie called "Tomorrow," was sung by the little red-haired orphan girl, and the words go something like this:

The sun will come out tomorrow
Bet your bottom dollar
That tomorrow there will be sun

And the refrain goes:

Tomorrow, tomorrow
It''s almost tomorrow
It''s only a day away.

Our hearts are really attracted to that, lifted up by those words. And the song does express the popular and comforting idea that there is always going to be more time, a second chance and that somehow the door of life will always remain open and that things are always going to work out just right. Tomorrow is going to be there, if we can just wait until tomorrow.

As beautiful as that is and as much as we want to believe it, it''s a lie. It''s all wrong, because tomorrow …