"The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. The tree that are aware of intellectually, because of that small time lag, is always in the past and therefore always unreal. Any intellectually conceived object is always in the past and therefore unreal. Reality is always the moment of vision before the intellectualization takes place. There is no other reality."
This seems a really fine way of cutting it. Why is it worth it to think about these things? Do they help us understand the world around us?
Does thinking about the past, present, and future this way redefine how I act or how I live?
Does it matter?
I'm not sure.
You know how they say that we should learn from our mistakes from the past. Well if we did not keep that in mind then how would we not repeat the same mistakes in the present and future? Thinking about the past and realizing the mistakes that you made prevent you from repeating them therefore redefining how you act or live. If we do not think about the future and make goals then we have no direction of where we want to go in life. So I think it does matter and we should keep the past, present, and future in mind.
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