The present is the closest and most understandable to us — after all, we all live only in the present. Although, in fact, we are never in the present: it immediately becomes the past, and, at first glance, it is impossible to describe or analyze it.
The present is the closest and most understandable to us — after all, we all live only in the present. Although, in fact, we are never in the present: it immediately becomes the past, and, at first glance, it is impossible to describe or analyze it. The young dream of a happy future, the elderly are full of memories. And you can only live now.
To live, to exist — all these are categories related to the present, to the moment «here and now». Conscience lives only in the present (it cannot be yesterday or tomorrow), love (memories of love are only thoughts), mind (every day I must generate in myself that state that makes adequate actions possible). Truth is always alive, if it is the truth, and therefore, as part of being, it must be constantly reborn.
The whole life of a person consists of separate moments, but there are, very rarely, moments stopped, thought out, understood. Every moment of my life has everything: everything is packed, folded, hidden in it. There are moments that illuminate the entire past and even future life with the light of understanding. And there are moments that only “whistle like bullets at the temple”: they are all the same, hence the monotony and boredom of life. But why does one moment turn out to be thought out, understood, and the other not? Because he is not experienced and in this sense is not lived.
To survive means to stop the moment. Our real life consists of such stopped moments. And only in them we feel really alive. To be constantly alive, that is, to live in a world of continuous actuality, where nothing is repeated, where every time everything is created anew, only God can. For a man, this is just an idea, but without it he is impossible.
WILL AT LEAST ONE MOMENT OF MY LIFE LIVE SO THAT I WANT TO EXPERIENCE IT FOREVER, AGAIN AND AGAIN?
We do not live our life, but we create it, we experience it. And to experience what is actually happening, you can only make every moment a work of art. For example, we part with a person knowing that we will never see him again. If we are truly aware of this moment, then we experience it as a drama: life is so short, so few people with whom there is a soul connection. Parting is like a sad melody that always sounds when you remember this person. Separation is like death.
To stop a moment means to make it eternal. Our life, Friedrich Nietzsche believed, depends on whether a single moment is lived in such a way that we want to experience it forever, again and again. And if at least one such moment was, then this person is “saved”.
If we do not notice the present, then for us there is no wisdom, no inspiration, no love. But only the dead past, which extinguishes the present with some kind of «acquired life experience.» “What experience? Nonsense! No experience of love. Love is the absence of the past, ”said Bella Akhmadulina. Experiencing the present moment, we touch eternity.