Introduction of time

Time can be seen in a multitude of ways.

In the most general sense, people regard “time” as whatever moves within the reach of their
consciousness in somewhat of a pattern (so that it can be measured). If it cannot be measured
properly, it’s at best an ideal (“infinity”). Nonetheless, people have “wrestled” with the ideal for
as long as consciousness came into being. For this reason, we now have quantum physics to wrestle
with 😊.
Whilst this is true (applicable) in the physics domain, “time” is also something people
struggle with through the philosophical spectrum. Here, the term “time” is strongly related to the
term “life” – and of course “death”.
And people have juggled with these concepts for as long as we can look back into history,
because, as far as I can tell, “life” cannot be tied to “death” without the use of “time”. This is
especially true when we add a little detail to the terms: “coming into life (into being)” cannot be
tied up to “coming into death (into non-existence)” without the use of “time”. This is of course
true for anything that can be seen as bi-punctum, which means that whenever something can be
seen as being into two places, we can make sense of it with the help of “time”. And while this is
applicable for everyday motion, this idea slowly helped the development of “sacrifice” for us. The
idea that we could take risks for a better condition in the future has been revolutionary.
Now life could become (for lack of a better word) better.
This concept, of “better”, can be linked to the idea of “order and chaos”, where “order” is
consciousness controlling its environment and “chaos” the unpredictably of its environment.
One said (although I can’t remember the name of the person at the moment) that life is like
orbiting around your own self, trying to reach it - making the case that the personality is always
trying to evolve.
In this situation, time is not simply a matter of going from a point A to a point B, but one
of always trying to reach point B. And as far as I am concerned, this is completely true. For us,
conscious, biological beings, every other “point B” is just another “point An+1” – because this is
what “trying to reach” an ideal consists of.
But this doesn’t apply only in the case of pursuing an ideal, but to day-to-day life itself
(where people don’t consciously act towards reaching an ideal). We don’t stop. We never stop
until we’re dead. And so, if we do, however, seem to be slowing down and not do anything, we
feel as if we are dying. This is why people cannot help themselves but absolutely hate being bored
and why we’d rather be electrocuted (risk dying) than continue to be bored (dying).
Present and Absent time

I believe that time – which is divided into past-present-future – cannot be interacted

with in other way than by splitting the structure into two intermittent forms, because as “the
better future” had been conceptualized, consciousness couldn’t have continued to live (believe)
in the present, as now the present represented the past (so that the “better future” could be
conceived in one’s mind).
*It’s because, as consciousness came into being, “living in the present” stopped being the
norm. Nor you should believe that “living in the future” has become the norm. In fact, the norm
has been “the balancing of present and the absent”.*

Because we cannot operate at the same time on both the present time (mindfulness) and
the “absent” time (the ideal and the past that gives birth to it), we now had to establish a new
form of ideal, that of balancing the two.
Balancing the way we think about our life, respectively about time, is, if not impossible to
do perfectly, doable enough so that we can be fulfilled with our time, respectively our life.
It’s the responsibility to plan and act the plan that make us work properly. It’s first when
we collect the information from the environment at hand and represent that into a “map”, and
second when we recollect the information from a “map” and act accordingly, what makes us
function properly.

And so, present time ( ) is to be considered the concurrence of the involuntary past
and the presumed future, while the absent time ( ) is to be considered the union of the
intentional past and the assumed future.