Other people's lives come at us without a backstory most of the time. The present is like that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you keep having to dip into the story's past to explain the present, then there's a good chance your real story's in the past, and you're just using the present as a vehicle to deliver us there.
I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
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.
So often, we don't realize that the very moments in which we live become our history, our story.
Our pasts so many times determine the value of what is happening today. Everybody is midway in their story.
There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold.
Everything present is included in the past somewhere; nobody's present pops out of nowhere.
History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.