It is easy to see time as existing along a path. There was a time then, which proceeds to now, and then moves toward the future.

This vision of time makes the idea of time travel fascinating. Because all future is potential, right? So we are simply moving toward a greater number of possibilities.

At the same time, the opposite happens with our vision of the past. It often narrows, confines, and makes us see our present as only possible because of the events which shaped us.

Time is far less interesting when we act like it is independent of our lives. Because it becomes easy to get stuck in the past through nostalgia. And easy to get stuck in the future through perfectionism.

The only thing that can always be interesting is now. How we live. And what we care about.