The Present - Already Past?

The Past
The Present
The Future

As long as your life lived.
The day, the hour, the minute, the second, the millisecond, the nanosecond, the picosecond.
The yet to come.

When does the past begin and the future end? When does the present become the past? When does the future become the present? This hour? This minute? This picosecond?

How to concentrate on ceaseless present moments when they are but a fleeting moment - gone in a picosecond and forever banished to the annals of the past? Does the present have a beginning and an end? If not, is there really a past and a future or is it all just the present? Should the present be considered in a timeless context instead? Eliminate time and all is present?

Our life's timeline is like an elastic band. We are born with a very short timeline. As we age the elastic band gets stretched. To the left of the present, lies the past, our history and memories....forever longer. The certainty of the past. To the right the future - always slightly more than a arms length away - stretched further for some. The uncertainty.

Like all elastics our individual time lines will also crack at some point - never to be used again to join this life's past, present and future. Left in pieces to be reconstructed by another generation.

Let me know what you think about what you have just read. Please and thanks!

Comments

mondaysboychild said…
Hello Olivier,
You do write interesting things.... Makes me ponder things. I heard something last night that I will remember for awhile....
Your destiny may be found on the path you took to avoid your destiny.
November 29, 2009
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