Personally, I have come to the conclusion that time only exist as a construct of the mind. It is created to give some context to our plane of existence, our reality. We find a need to put events, emotions, and the other "stuff" of life into the context of past, present, or future. We can mitigate, expand, or dwell upon the consequences of the past, but the past has happened and there is nothing we can do to change it. Each moment is our present, and the present is what we use to shape our future. We live each moment for the next and this is living in the now. The future, however, being what we make of it, is susceptible to change. Our future is shaped by those choices we make in the moment of the present. We can let a person drown or we can save them, either way we have effect on their reality and the reality of those around them. We create our past, live in our present, and plan our future. One might say they just let the future happen, but isn't that, in itself, a plan?
To read the rest of My Sunday Thought concerning time, please follow this ling to my blog, "The Path": Time Is on My Side
Thanks for the thinking point, Pas. Tony.
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-- Lao Tzu
So very true. But maybe we say one, thinking it does not sound like the other. Thinking about time is a fun exercise. Dwelling on time isn't. I liked ... more