I never was, am always to be. No one ever saw me, nor ever will. And yet I am the confidence of all, To live and breath on this terrestrial ball. What am I?
Think you have it? The answer is below.
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Answer: Tomorrow
The trick here is that tomorrow can never actually be caught in the present tense. The moment it arrives, it stops being tomorrow and becomes today — so by definition it "never was" and can never be seen, only anticipated. That's the sleight of hand: the riddle describes something permanently out of reach, always one step ahead of experience, and our brains want to fill that gap with something abstract like time or eternity. But the answer is far more everyday. Tomorrow is the thing we all quietly bank on — we plan for it, save for it, hope for it — even though none of us will ever actually stand inside it. That mix of universal reliance and total unreachability is what makes "tomorrow" click so satisfyingly once it lands.
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