The only moment that exists is now.
<p>It may seem futile to pull at the frills of our understanding of time and expect it to unravel. Decoding a clockface and feeling the passing of time is understood at a young age and rarely revisited. Why would it? It’s one of the only things we can be sure of — existence is predicated on the past and like a nearing left turn, the future is arriving shortly. However, let’s put this idea to the test. <strong>I challenge you</strong> to examine your experience to see if there is (or isn’t) validity to this <strong>understanding of time.</strong></p>
<p><strong>Back to the Future</strong></p>
<p>Let’s begin by investigating the past. When searching for what we call the past, what do we find? The past can only take form as a constellation of thoughts and feelings while still occurring — in a word — <em>now</em>. The <em>now</em> as we come to see it, <strong>is impossible to escape.</strong> No struggle or rationalizing can place us in the <em>now</em>, for everything occurring is the <em>now</em>. It is simply not possible to experience anything but the precise moment of <em>now</em>. Any recollection or image of past events is occurring in the <em>now </em>in which it is being recalled. There simply is nothing else. Don’t take my word for it, <strong>search deeply into your own experience.</strong> Bring to mind a recent memory. It could be the moments before beginning this essay or the moments before this sentence. No matter how recent, the experience you experienced when experiencing this memory is <strong>nowhere to be found. </strong>This applies to our concept of the future as well. Attempting to predict the future will still be taking place in the precise <em>now </em>of our speculation. In other words, the events we are postulating exist in a hypothetical future. But the postulating itself is still happening <em>now.</em> The effort spent trying to <strong>simulate</strong> a potential future won’t bring us any closer to it.</p>
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