Momentary nature of life

The nature of time has always been an intriguing aspect for me. We run by time, literally on day to day activities, to life span, to our past and future, every conversation, every decision we make time is very much intervened in it. The way we have conversations about it in current world have also disguised the real nature of time.

After being very much obsessed with being on time with my plans and schedules, always ending up failing, or not understanding what people mean by, we always be in time, we always complete in time, where me messing up the schedules every time, ended up at a Stanford article which spoke about time.

The one particular explanation of time, that stuck with me very much was, how our life is just events and time is measure of those events !! Clock is a device that helps us track the event not the time. Any of the events or action that we perform, happens one after the other !! At least now that is what we are doing. When something is happening one after the other, there is before for every event and after. We used Sun as well for our reference when these devices aren't available, even now with respect to day and night terms !!! The whole sun raising and setting are again measured for the entire year scale and so on.

If you look at your life as well, we always speak in dimension of time. I have done this, I will be going somewhere, I can't imagine he/ she did that !! It is always reference to something either happened in the past or something that is going to happen in the future or for something that is happening right now. But if you clearly look into it, let the words drop, there is no past, neither the future. The past is merging into present and present is evolving into the future, right this second, or in this moment !!! There is nothing other than you acting right at this moment ! Rest is just the drama of the conditioned mind for analysis of your next action or event !! Entire world is existing in this moment and evolving in this moment.