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We're all struggling to get out of the past. We see something that reminds us of something, and then we bring our baggage into the present. Then we project it onto people constantly.

Since I was a very small child, I've had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.

We think we're living in the present, but we're really living in the past.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.

It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.