Past and future

 

I think that many people experience something called nostalgia.   It's kind of

like the blues, mostly concerning how the past has by some kind of

mysterious process become the present.  Therefore, there are events,

in our personal lives and even events connected to our social lives,

that generally we would prefer to be more real than memories in

our present.  It must be extremely rare for someone to experience

nostalgia about the future.  Generally, it would be hard for us to

even imagine how that would work.

Nevertheless, we do have emotions about the future.  Sometimes

it is exciting for us to imagine events that my take place in the future

and there is also the experience of looking forward with anticipation

about some personal events, and even to look forward to events

socially which we can have strong emotions about seeing 

take place, and of course, sometimes, they just don't.

Of  course, the main under lying point of this blog is trying

to examine that most curious event, which is not in the 

past, nor in the future, which is often referred to as the present and

sometimes as now.  It is a very curious and kind of special 

event and of course again for many or maybe most people

that process of going from the past to the present and then

have the present kind of disappear into the future can be,

and perhaps actually is - kind of mind boggling.

Many people consider that time has no real " preferred " direction

in that, generally, actions can be reversed.  However, there

is that pesky second law of thermodynamics. This " law " 

which seems, as hard to evade as other laws of this type,

causes some to think, it could be connected in some ways

to our experience of time. 

At the end of day, hopefully sometime in the future, I think

it is generally a positive approach, to view events in the

past, no matter how great those events may have been,

as things that can be improved upon.  In fact, at it's core,

 it may be what science is all about.