Illusion

We live an illusion of reality where most of it isn’t really there. When we look at the massive objects around us, they seem to be solid and yet, if we see them at the microscopic level, they are just air. There is not much there but an atomic nucleus and electrons and huge amounts of empty space in between.

The same is true when we look at the future and realize that it doesn’t exist yet. It is a possibility that may or may not happen. When we look at the past, we realize that it doesn’t exist anymore and whatever happened, we cannot change. The present is that thin boundary between the future and the past, so infinitely thin that it would seem not to exist either. Everything that we perceive in the present has occurred already, from a few milliseconds to billions of years ago. What we get to see in the present, is the past.

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