Some of your best memories will come from plans that fell through. Time doesn’t care about your itinerary.

Cancelled plans create the empty space where unplanned things happen. The night the tickets sold out, the trip rained off, and the hours of sitting around improvising afterwards tend to end up in your permanent collection, while the plans that went smoothly are often merely fine. Control over a day and the quality of a day are two different measures.

When something falls through this week, give it twenty minutes before declaring the day wasted. Ask who else is suddenly free. A lot of the best evenings are the ones nobody planned or expected.