Whenever we are, we are in the present moment. Even with time travel, our present moment travels back and forward in time. Maybe the first few days or months, we would feel the excitement of being in a different time, but once we get used to it, our presence will feel just like the presence we did back from the time we came from. Otherwise, the folks living in that would feel excited all the time. Once the novelty of the different time is gone, it would no longer feel like time travel. For time is novelty, time is differentiation from our past.
When we first land in that other time, there is a lot to differentiate from our past in the time that we came from, but as slowly we get settled in this new time, those differences would fade away. The only way we could keep the feeling of time travel alive is by time travel flipping, like a TV remote, we have to be constantly going back and forth, which once we get used to it, would feel like a drag. Must be jump in time again to feel a little alive. Ultimately, time travel is not so interesting.
Creativity is thus, the only kind of time travel, that is interesting. Creation is the differentiating from our past, creation is the bringing forth of novelty. Creativity is more time travel than time travel. In fact, time travel as we usually think of, in terms of a machine that travels in a timeline, is escapism, is anything but creative, rather it is fueled on the momentary high of the first few days of being in a different time.
There is no time travel but of creativity. Physical time travel is overrated.
We can not act in the past or the future, as time travel is not possible, and even if it is possible, our present would travel with us, leaving us to only be able to act in the present, act as the presence. It is not that only in the present that we act, but that we act to bring forth presence by acting. Not that action only happens in the present moment, but that presence ensues only when we act. Action is Presence. To be present is to act.
For if we don’t act, we postpone, we avoid, we derail, but what? We postpone the movement of time, by prolonging the past. We do not act, we react.
कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते मा फलेषु कदाचन ।
मा कर्मफलहेतुर्भुर्मा ते संगोऽस्त्वकर्मणि ॥
Novelty is not a total break from the past, that would be chaos ensuing. It is repeating the things of the past, things that worked, that made sense, in ways that invites, makes room for, aspects that were not totally there, something new. It is very much the past, but the past as the background, as a canvas, on which the new is sketched.
Novelty is not absolutely new, for in such absolutes, breeds nonsense. Its a mixed bag. Mostly the old with a hint of the new, that is novelty. But when there is not any hint, a reproduction of the generalities that of the past, what we do entails for re-action.
To be able to act, that gift of moving, being moved by e-motion, is is.
אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה
