Past , Present & Future

Mohsin Khan
3 min readJun 11, 2021

Life as it seems is just a relentless flow of time and we are bound to flow with it . Sometime life takes us upstream, sometime it takes us downstream, sometimes life brings put us in middle of a storm and sometime it puts us in middle of a perpetual still .Some believe time is ever changing, some believe time is the only constant. Life for some, is means of gaining salvation for some, it is means of loosing the self . Life and time for many are two sides of the same coin while for many they are banks of a river .

When life kicks in the belly of motherhood it is cherished as a beautiful moment of life . Unaware of past , present and future one enters the realm of this world and hopefully knowing past , present and future one departs. When one looks back into it closely one wonders did I really knew past, present or future at any point of time in my life. Whenever we look back, past changes based on where we stand in present and how far back we looking.Deeper we look wider the feeling gets of all those moment(good or bad), enumerating into experiences(good or bad) . Depending on how any particular experience shaped us, we describe that experience as a teacher , motivator, punisher, killer, game changer, avenger or whatever word we want to tag that experience with. Did we saw these moments while living them in past when it was our present as an experience? Do we keep feeling about any experience in same way with passage of time. Unlike past when we look into the future it mostly seems working in our favour or favouring our expectations and imaginations. This imagination/expectation of future is what many call hope and others as dream. Is hoping or dreaming equivalent of knowing ? Do we ever know for certain, what we hope or dream is what is we will want when that future will be our present .

Standing at the junction of present where past meets future, we have experience of past building hopes and dreams of future . So in essence present is handshake between past and future and we as individuals are spectators of this union . Some believe present is where you shape the future and create the past but then where is present. Any moment from this moment will be future and any moment after this moment will be past. Is having control over this moment will mean I have control over past and future. If past is a result and future is a plan then Is present the experiment we all are subject to? If whole life is just endless series of experiments then definitely we all are living a hypothesis set by our creator .

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