Michael Banovsky

How drowning and insignificant we are in the annals of time.

When I read about scientists discovering a new newt, black hole or positing an idea of another universe, I immediately think: “Well, how are we discovering something now if this thing probably existed before calendars and clocks?”

It’s “now” I’d like to talk about.

If something is really important to you, don’t you drop everything and deal with it immediately? A death in the family, a flat tire, a dirty diaper?

Now.

If that’s the case, and if the really important things in life happen independent of fixed time, then setting a due date for something is really just a way of telling yourself it’s not important. Why? Because you won’t be doing it now, but later.

When we try and do only things that are important to us, more will get done. We’ll have more capacity for the things we love. And we’ll finally be free of time.

There is no time in now, only is.