4 February

I was thinking about why the anticipation for an event is so often much better than the event itself. The red carpet arrivals, the tension before a band appears on stage, the night before Christmas etc. It could be because we always imagine more than the reality. But it’s more I think - it’s where we inhabit an aspect of reality called the potential or virtual. The eternal part of reality, where we hover over multiple possibilities. Anything could happen etc. We tend to think stuff either exists, or it doesn’t. But the third option is - it exists potentially. It’s existential poise.