The concept of a moment has always been a fascination of mine, how long is a moment? There is no way we can measure such a thing, or even give it a proper definition. After much contemplation and considering what happens when we are “outside” of a moment, one could conclude that moments are times that we engage our senses and become consciously aware of detail. It is arguable that every bit of time is a moment, but we often neglect to call time by that, so then what would be time where we aren’t in a moment? The other side to our conscious, clear engagement is a bit hazy subconscious sort of “autopilot” we fall into if not engaged.

Therefore, in this sense all time is right now, the past is dead and the future doesn’t exist. In this time we know as the present, we alternate our consciousness between moments and subconscious autopilot. Now how does it affect us?

Keeping in mind that the past is no more, it seems a bit humorous that we would let such a thing have almost complete control over us. The past behavior of us is what we use to choose out current behaviors, our past ideas of the world and the people who live in it are responsible for how we feel and think of our environment. The way we perceive our environment subsequently reflects on ourselves, as most of human emotion is reactionary rather than intrinsic. So you can see how such a silly thing as the past can quickly gain complete control over one, even though our self can change in a split second.

Summary

we see ourselves as we have been previously, for that is what’s defined. Viewing our current selves as we have been previously, and by “Being yourself” based on who you think you are, you only limit and deny the one thing that is real: yourself in the present.