# Flow of Time
- URL: https://www.petrikajander.com/flow-of-time/
- Author: Petri Kajander
- Date: 2004-08-09
- Language: en
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8yzh2PPebk

Flow of time is an illusion. Time is motion. It has a duration—a measurement of motion from one point to another. Quantum mechanics do not behave this way and, therefore, Einstein was more than a bit upset: "God does not play dice with the universe."

The paradox is that we are always in motion—if not physically at least in our mind. We are never really in the moment. Our mind wanders around endlessly either recalling past memories and experiences or projecting things for the future. Our mind reacts for the current moment while not being able to experience the current now time as it is. We do not see the world as it is. Our own view of the world is adjusted and biased, depending on our personal history, cultural background, social and behavioral standards and expectations, as well as experience and memories of similar situations in the past.We see what we know, and we know what we have experienced in the past. See the loop?

We crave security and predictability. We want to have stability in our lives. Unfortunately, "now" is always new— unknown. It is a dynamic process that cannot be known beforehand. It destroys part of the known in order to create something new. Therefore it is called the "change." Still, we want to be able to be in control. We cannot stand the unpredictable—at least our mind thinks so.

Have you tried to keep your mind still, not thinking about the future or the past? Not thinking about anything while walking in the street. Purely observing and appreciating whatever comes your way. What happens? By not letting your mind label and judge things around you and squeezing your observations into a historical framework (your experience or prejudice),you start to see clearly and register more than ever about the world around you. And the best part is that you can even recall those things later on. You can visualize your entire route to work or home, with all the details and passersby, not even talking about their clothing or what they were saying and so on. All this is possible because your mind is not "working," thinking about the past or worrying about the future. You're free to live in the moment—always in the timeless now time.

How could you know something beforehand and label it because the now moment is ever changing, new all the time, the unknown? Still our static mind wants to control something dynamic. And it always fails, but we do not see it. Our mind has its tricks to hide its own faults. It lays blame in all the other directions. It's always somebody else's fault. Our expectations are not fulfilled. We are sad or angry, frustrated or surprised, thanks to our mind. But who created those expectations and thoughts in the first place? They did not happen, as the physical world exists, objectively. They were our own mind's creations, which we treated as real. They became real for us. They are our own "static" creation, which did not align with the real world—the now time.

It's time to stop extrapolating the past for the current moment and take life as it comes. Without objections or force. Just by letting go and letting it flow.