It’s still today

It’s still today.

You know a day ago this was tomorrow, and it’s difficult to spot the difference because it feels like today

In fact it feels like today all the time.

All the time!

Tomorrow becomes today seamlessly, I’ve been trying to spot the transition since I discovered clocks and amazing concepts like midnight when I was a small child. If I looked at the clock time was going round and round and if I tried to stay up till midnight to see tomorrow become today I always fell asleep.

So I never found out how it did change.

When the family went on holiday, next week seemed like a million years away and then suddenly it was tomorrow and then suddenly it was right now, today, I never did work that one out either.

When there was a dentists appointment next week it seemed horribly close, and tomorrow was far too near. It would come thundering towards me like a herd of elephants.

When I was a teenager I worked out why time speeds up as we get older. You see, when you are 2 years old a year takes forever because it is HALF YOUR LIFE. When you are 100, it is just 1% of your life. The difference is immense.

That is how it feels.
Time is built on a feeling.

Also, when there is pain it is eons of time within the hell of that pain.
Surviving pain takes forever.
Don’t ask me about migraines or dentists!

Yet when it’s all over and you are happy and laughing with your friends and family it’s gone in a flash.

We all know this.

Because time does not exist.
Time is a feeling, it is a perception, it is a movement.
Time is not a thing

I can’t say ‘Here is some time, let me put it in your hand.’

No. It doesn’t work like that, time is not real.

Tomorrow is not real

Yesterday is not real

Yet we anticipate one and remember the other. Time is a balancing act we do in the now.
We anticipate tomorrow now.
We remember yesterday now.
I am writing this now.
You are reading this now.

Now is the space within which we find ourselves, It is immediate and surrounds us completely.
Everything changes within it.

Now is a space within which we conceive of time.
Now is WHERE we can think of tomorrow and recall the past.

I like now.