What Time Is It? It’s Past, Present and Future.

There is enough time to become creative and active participants in our own destiny.

At dawn

It is spring again, time has finally passed rather quickly and we are back in May, the month I was born.

Let’s seize the day — we only live once! — and take some time off to reflect about time…

What is present tense anyway, if we consider it in the sense of an action happening exactly at the present point in time? Have we ever experienced an instantaneous moment? What we perceive as occurring in the present seems actually made up of things that have already happened in the past… Even light does not travel instantaneously and takes some time to reach us.

In hindsight, we may remember some intense moments of “here and now” awareness, filled with connection, caring and appreciation, and we hope that we will keep them close to heart for years to come.

The present would be full of all the futures, if the past wasn’t already projecting a story into it. ― André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres, 1897

Whether we like it or not, it seems difficult to deny that there is a continuity between our past and our present. Despite the impermanence of all things, what has passed away often remains in some marginal way as “transitional fossils” (from Classical Latin: fossilis, literally “obtained by digging”, Oxford English Dictionary). We live among…