Time is not something tangible. There are no atoms or molecules of time. We can’t see hours, minutes or days under a microscope with a scanner of any sort.
So how does time actually exist? It doesn’t really it’s just a unit of measurement. Time is really no different than inches feet yards or miles. Can’t see them either. We just use them in our mind to catalog our experience.
Time and space are creations of the mind of man. It is said in quantum physics that all occurrences, experiences, and events exist simultaneously, and as we experience them, we catalog them in a linear progression within our memory for perspective.
Space exists in the same way. We don’t know how large something is until we measured it. But just because we measured it and found out how large it was does not mean it just became that large. It always was that large. Our awareness gave it a specific size when we measured it .
Everything in our minds right now that we consider our past, or our memories, are not tangible items that we can touch see and feel they are only thoughts we have cataloged in the recesses of our mind and assigned a specific time to them, but we are actually thinking about them now.
Anything that could possibly happen in the future we cannot touch see or smell. Those experiences also exist only in our mind. We are thinking planning and visualizing them now.
A paragraph ago I mentioned now, but now that time is then, which is only a memory .
All that exists is the present moment of now. Anything other than the current experience is nothing more than a thought.
For that reason, we should not allow thoughts of what we have done in the past good or bad, and thoughts of what we plan to or may experience in the future impact our focus on the present moment.
Life is lived in the present moment. It will always be the present moment. There will never be a time that we will experience anything other than the present moment.
There is no value in hoping to appreciate a future time or reveling in joys of the past. Any such focus is destruction of the present moment and the deviation from actually living.
Feeling where we are NOW, being mindful and aware of our surroundings, and the magnificence of how life flows and is intertwined and connected can allow the seemingly benign moment to be truly spectacular.
Or we can choose to be concerned over mistakes from the past or worried about situations that may never occur in the future and miss our opportunity to experience the majesty of life.
Get out of your head and into your life, you will find joy there.