http://www.visibleorigami.com/2020/04/the-carrot-and-whip-and-golden-fleece.html

SNIP:

Yesterday went by and now it is gone. The parts we can still remember are in some interior location, at least the images are... but then there are all those parts we cannot remember. They are also in some interior location but we can't locate the location. If we could, we possibly could also locate those parts we cannot remember. As the days roll up behind yesterday, there are days we cannot remember at all. No part of that day comes to mind. It's not just the individual days we can no longer remember. There are weeks, months, years that we can now no longer remember so... the question arises; “Who is it that cannot remember these stretches of time?” We cannot remember who that is either. We never met them. In many cases, we do not even know who it is that can and cannot remember whatever it was that happened in that life.

Now we are in the present. The present is called NOW and here is a peculiar thing. Most of us are not in that present moment most of the time. If we were able to be in that present moment there would be no sense of Past or Future. There would only be NOW. Wherever we may be and whoever we may be, some amount of 'the idea' of the Future extends before each of us. The Future is not something we can remember. Logic tells us this is not possible because we haven't gotten there yet, so there is nothing to remember, BUT... here is another odd feature in our Adventures with Time. We have BEEN THERE BEFORE. If only in the approximate sense we have been there because the past repeats itself due to the inflexibility of Habit. This accounts, to some extent, for those sensations of Deja Vu. There is, of course, more to it than that but most people don't bother wondering about any of it. They have a carrot of some kind hanging in the air in front of them and that pulls them forward.

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