Time According To The Average Thinker

[Gabriel David Gomez]

A view of time as most minds consider it to be involves a more existent and complex past and future

 

Allow me to begin with the past as I describe time with the example of a building. The past has always existed and gives us a solid platform known as the foundation. Having always existed, that "foundation" is infinitely deep and finitely tall. The peak of the past transitions into the present, yet how might something infinitely deep be finitely tall? Well, consider approaching a wall, you may ever approach until actual contact. In fact, consider a pencil that, when chopped in half, remains in two halves which may be halved and so on unto eternity. That being said, the past becomes after the present has occurred; and the present becomes after the future becomes; therefore, as a foundation or the core of a sphere, the order of the three (from bottom to top) is past before present and future after the present. The present is thus the category exactly before the peak of the past which I describe as the building process because it is always in action, the essence of expansion. Now, because nothing illogical has ever happened, nature favors logic. Logic being perfect, we live in the best of all possible worlds. The future rather like a blank canvas which the expansion (the past) grows into, and the future is an infinitely vast canvas. Being blank, the future serves as a sort of bouncer, only allowing logical events to expand into it. Now, the whole building process may be described by a sphere. The past may still be infinitely deep because of the example of the pencil except, this time, the infinity is revealed by erasing and remarking a more precise center seeing as how for every center marked, immediately near lies a more perfect option, just as a pencil (being finite) may be used to accentuate infinity.Therefore the solid sphere is the past and possibly a portion of the present (just as shading a drawing from black to white seems to "blend" two polar opposites when peered at from a distance) which is the process of building which is the expansion into the future (or the available canvas). The past changes not but ever becomes. The present ever becomes and is seen in those things which change. The future is can be seen by saying, "Those things which have happened were once unfulfilled and therefore they were destined to transition from future to present and past afterward.".

 

As for a realistic approach to the future and past. The past is non-existent. Everything (after a present condition can become a memory) has changes at least very slightly after any amount of time passes. At least atomicly. The future is indeed non-existent as well. The present is a constant happening and, because the process of awareness takes place well after the actual event you are aware of, the present as people experience it is only the present before it became the past.