When you stop and think about it, there is only the future and the past. There is no present. Where the future and the past meet, it’s in that fleeting ‘moment’ that the present exists, then it’s gone and it becomes the past.
Today isn’t much different than ancient times. Why, some people actually believe that the reason why geese disappear every fall is because someone is eating them.
When I was first dating my wife, we had an evening when we were sitting and watching TV. She was in front of me and I was massaging her shoulders and saying sweet nothings into her ears. Suddenly, she turned to me and said “You’re a regular Don Juan, aren’t you?”. Without hesitating, I told her in my best Don Juan accent “ You know, the women call me Don Juan numero two. You know why they call me Don Juan numero two? Because every time I see a beautiful woman, I say ‘Hey babe, you want to make love?’ and they always reply, ‘No thanks, I Don Juan to’. She laughed, and in 2 weeks we’ll be celebrating 40 years of marriage.
When I first got married many years ago, I put some Cherrios into a small plastic bag and made a label that said they were Polish donut seeds ( my mother in law was Polish) I told her to plant them and in a few weeks a donut tree would grow. I got a phone call from her a couple of months later and she said that nothing was growing, so I told her that’s because she planted them upside down. She passed away a few years ago, but we always had a good laugh over the years remembering my ‘gift’
When you stop and think about it, there is only the future and the past. There is no present. Where the future and the past meet, it’s in that fleeting ‘moment’ that the present exists, then it’s gone and it becomes the past.