We live in time mentally

Our doing is anchored to now, but our mind is not constrained to it

We be.

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Three boxes of varying lenth. A blue-filled box is long, and labeled "past". A small blue-outlined, white-filled box is labled "present", and our stick figure has one leg lifted and about to step on it. There is a small gap, and then a longer yellow box labeled "future".

Existentially, we live in all time.

We leverage memories — the past — to inform the present and the future. We live in the present, inundated with countless data points that we are constantly sifting through to try to make sense of our reality. We sense the future — signaled by fear and desire — and try to avoid what alarms us, and grab what intrigues us.

We do.

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Using the same blue-outlined-yellow boxes indicating past-present-future, they've been made taller and the same width. A central node is in the present box, labeled "we do". Multiple vector forces from the past are entering the node. A single vector force line is exiting to the future.

We remember the goopy crunch of squashing an insect even as we consider the potentiality-states of letting it keep on keeping on. We note if we don’t act fast we lose the moment of choice. Most decisions we take like this: the choice reaches forward into the future as a done/undone state. We can reach back to realign interpretation, but not to change the event.

We step out of time.

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Using the same blue-outlined-yellow boxes indicating past-present-future, they've been made short again and are the same width. A central node is above the present box, labeled "we step out of time". Multiple vector forces exit from the node to be near the past, present, and future.

We can dwell on a span of time in the past. We daydream about a great day, or positing how we wished we had responded to something in a different way.

Sometimes those dwellings can be future state, like with convoluted and far-reaching decisions. Should I get more education? Can I actually afford it? Will the degree benefit me in some way; how has it impacted others? Could I self-pace and self-educate? 

We build for the future as the now.

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Using the same blue-outlined-yellow boxes indicating past-present-future, they're again taller and the same width. A central node is 3/5 in the present box, 2/5 in the future box, and is labeled "we build for the future as the now". Multiple vector forces from the past and present are entering the node. A multiple vector forces are exiting to the future.

We reach towards the future to try to set up potentialities: an environment that is more in line with our mind, a desire upswelled into hours spent to materialize it…even if it’s a few intangible pixels materialized and relayed on a light box, which may or may not affect others more or less profoundly.

Reference disciplines include psychology, arts, literature and reading.