The Omnipotence of the Now
Some thoughts on now, the past and the future.

Animals in the natural state are very much creatures of now, right now, this moment, and the next, and the next. Bring present in the now is highly beneficial when you're stalking game or being hunted or if you're thirsty. Being in the now is hard wired into most animals on the planet, animals that are in the ten seconds ago get eaten usually and animals in the thirty seconds from now are similarly frozen and eaten as well.

Its not too hard to bear in mind that we humans are just bright apes, or monkeys really. That we're creatures with a hard wired now in us as well, but that our sentience allows us to transcend the now and consider the then both future and past. Its an easier transformation for some than for others, enlightenment is a difficult event to measure. The now is why we can understand crimes of passion, why that fucker who just cut you off for no reason makes you want to push his car off the road, why sometimes moments pass like centuries. The now is the needle on the phonograph, it is the shining instant in the ever unfolding history of time and space. Being now is both simple and highly complex. Enough so that Zen philosophers have educated, or maybe reeducated, people in how to exist now.

But also to recognize that there is no real reason why your now in ten seconds has to be like your now right now. If you are furious, you can change your now, click, change, different now, different universe. The unending nature of change in the universe can be harnessed for you by simply rolling with it for a second, let change wash over you, let your fury wash away, let the now become the then and find a new now. Decide what you wish your new now to be like, mold it into the right size and shape, it is your now, do with it what you will.