"It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. 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
It bothers me when people say the present is more important than the past, that we shouldn't live in the past. We shouldn't dwell in the past, fair enough; there's no point looking back, I get that,. As soon as one starts to mesmerism the 'good old days', there's a depressing implication that the best days were over. "Used to" are two of the saddest words in English, it doesn't enforce any bragging rights, merely says you've stopped trying, given up.
Even so, I disagree. Without the past, there is no present, nor future. One cannot even exist in the present without a past. The definition of 'new', I'd argue is something one hasn't experienced before, in the past. We may not be able to know if there's a future; but living only in the present, and there'd definitely be no future in that!
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