Whatever Happens, It’s Already Happened!

What do Tenet, Inception, and Dr. Who all have in common? They’re all very confusing when it comes to the subject of time. They offer us a time-inverting, dream-inceptive, and time-y wimey wibbly wobbly way of looking at things.

Yes, whatever happens, has also already happened, and vice-versa! But how does that work?

Let’s think!

This moment is all there ever is; all there ever will be. The past and future only exist within our minds, and our connection to the past is there because we believe it holds validity.

After all, it happened in the then-present, which is also the now-present.

Wait, now I’m confused.

I understand! But the only thing that’s making you confused is because you are putting the most importance on what happens outside of you. When you stop doing that, you alleviate the significance of the past, thus liberating your future.

If everything is to be found within this present moment, then the psychological concepts called the ‘future’ and the ‘past’ exist nowhere but in your mind.

Think about it!

You believe the past to be true because you keep reconnecting to it. But it doesn’t exist anymore, it’s in the past. And where is that? In your mind.

This could be your imagination. But I don’t know what yours looks like…

Time is not linear; time is perceived as linear.

Things seem to happen one after the other because we count seconds, hours, days, weeks, years, decades, millennia, centuries, and so on. But still: nothing outside of this moment exists anywhere but in your mind.

And without boring you with the metaphysical details, and making it more complicated than it should be…

This moment right now is the only thing that’s going to matter because it is all there ever is. Being stressed about being anywhere else only drains your energy from the present moment.

It does nothing else.