Plans got canceled. Congratulations, you just won a free night.

A cancellation reads as a loss because you had already spent the evening in your head. What actually happened is that several hours came back to you with nothing attached, which is the exact thing you complain about never having. The disappointment is real and it passes fast. Underneath it is unassigned time.

Decide what the free night is for before it dissolves into scrolling. Sleep, the thing you keep putting off, a long shower and a record you have not played in a while. Unclaimed hours have a way of vanishing without anybody enjoying them.