On time
(bare with me through this rationale. Some examples will be thrown on our way later)
1. There is nothing else other than what we call Present.
1.2. The familiar division of time is based on a criterium of existence. This much I think is agreed upon.
2. The past does not exist.
2.1. By definition the past is existence that ceased to exist. What remains is memory of that existence. But a memory of a given thing is not that given thing. We must not make that confusion.
3. The future is a possibilty of an existence.
3.1. Of all the existences we can think of none is certain.
3.2. There is no means to guarantee that something that exists will continue to exist or that something that does not exist will come to exist.
3.3. Of all the things we can think of one is the least uncertain - that is death. Thus we can say that the future is death.
4. So, the past does not existe, future is death and the present is existence. That much is clear. 4.1. Inasmuch as we can prove existence, which is in itself a complicated matter. One that I will not address here.
5. This sustains the assertion that only the present has value, value being the variable importance that one holds to things.
5.1.One can not hold value to nothing, as in the past;
5.2. Nor can one hold any value to death.
5.2.1. This affirmation, which is not often thought carefully of is absolutely true.
5.2.1.2 Death being non-existence it has no value, for value can only be appointed to things within existence.
5.2.1.3 So what is commonly considered the value of death for any given person is in fact the value that they hold for the end of life.
5.2.2. The expresion "death has this value for me" means nothing and can only be interpreted as "the end of life has this value for me".
5.2.3. These are not simple word games for they have important consequences.
5.2.3.1. The end of life is in itself life and we carry it always in the present, for it is what we permanently are.
5.2.3.2. Death,being the future, is a state, different from life, of non-existence. In that state it does not make sense to speak of the end of life for there is no life to speak of. In the brief moment in which one's life ends and in which one's death occurs we can speak of the present becoming the future. But, then, by the nature of things, there is no sense is making the distinction, for no one can use it or explain it.
5.3. Only the present has value inasmuch as only existence has value.
5.3.1. One can address value to the limit of life - its very end - but not to death which is non-existence. That must not be confused.
6. Knowing this it is worrying that many people live their lives in hunger for the future which they believe to be existence to come as certain as existence that is.
6.1. That illusion makes them, at times, to underappreciate or nonappreciate the present (that, as we have seen it the only state in which we can speak of existence) in favor of the future.
6.2. They live as if for someting yet to come or something yet to be settled, as if the present were not sufficient and complete.
6.3. At times, when the present does not become as thought upon in visions and wishes of the future they, becoming aware of their hunger and nonappreciative life, condemn their past present as if it had no value only because it did not lead to their expected future.
6.3.1 Expectations are a gamble and a risk so much as they are a belief in something that does not exist and may never come to exist.
I see people in hunger for the future with no other reason than the future's sake. Their future's sake. Even when they admit to a happy present some are in hunger of some happier or more peaceful or secure present. That happens for they are afraid of what the future may bring - the destruction of their present happiness - and do not understand that the future brings nothing. It is we that go to it as we go to an idea. Existence exists merely and solely in the present.
Having conscience of this is not easy as easy as it seems. But achieving this conscience is imperative if we want to fully appreciate ourselves, other and things that surround us and that may be put in contact with us. If we evalute the present thouroughly, changing (or trying) what we do not want and cherishing what we have the delusional notion of future as an existence loses meaning, for we are ever well in the present and come to see that the only change that can occur other that the ones presently available to me is death, for in itself, truly, death in not a change but something else other than existence. It is non-existence.
7. What I do now can be given value
7.1 What I wish to be able to do in the future has no value for it does not exist.
7.2. Intention has no value.
7.2.1. What I do now, god or bad, saddening or merry, has value and if I do not aknowledge preferring a blind chase of what it can be done in the future the consequence is a denial of existence and the leading of a semi-existence, for one would be alive and living in the present but missing the value of that present.
8.Value is an important part of existence.
8.1. It is the building block of personal identity, meaning, direction and fulfillment.
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