Past and Future do not exist? WTF?
Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can’t relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don’t know if there is one. — George Harrison
Time is something unconsciously happening to us. Every moment we live, piles up and builds our past. Moments we cannot relive anymore. Moments to which we can think about, how it was, how we felt, what we saw, what we smelled, what we heard.
When we read that, past and future do not exist. Our mind gets confused because we simply having hard times to understand that “exist” means it currently exists right now. Something that exists, per definition, only can be in this moment.
The past is full of present moments that have passed, and since we cannot relive them. They don’t exist anymore. Only our mind can recall them.
Same applies to the future. The future didn’t happen yet, and we don’t even know if there is one for us. Only our mind can “think” about it. And since we don’t know if we have a future. Our mind builds one for us.
Planning future activities, of course, is necessary. But consciously accepting that it might come differently. Who knows?
Also, realizing the unwanted thoughts hindering us from moving is the key to understanding and to live right now. Such thoughts typically contain worries from fear of passed moments.
Therefore, past and future cannot exist right now. Leaning into it, I have chosen consciously “cannot”, since our mind has to give them existence.
Experiencing this moment is about training our mind to let space for the now. Our mind will not stop. But as we getting aware, we notice those thoughts faster, and can let them go faster.
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. — Michael Altshuler
Living in this present moment is nothing more than becoming conscious about it. Being aware that the only time that “exists” is now. All the good and bad things only can happen right now. So let experience fully whatever comes along while being present.
Something bad might happen, yes. But:
- Whatever it is, we will not change the happening. We can resist or live it through and let go.
- Likewise, as emotions: If we protect us from possible bad things / feelings. We’ll protect us from the good things / feelings as well.
We cannot selectively ignore. It’s all or none.
Life is happening now and always will. Life will never happen in the past or the future.
You’re in control of how you pilot “time”.
Who controls the past, controls the future: who controls the present controls the past. — George Orwell, 1984
While being conscious and present in this moment. Your moments piling up in your memories, your past, will become richer in all senses of the meaning.
You’re in control if you want to experience life itself, or a fiction of your mind.
Enjoy the moment.
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