For people who have a hard time believing in paradoxes: we live in one.

Literally constantly.

Time is a paradox.

It doesn’t really exist (because it’s always now), but we can experience it just the same.

Time isn’t, AND it is.

Paradox.

Easy-peasy.

Does it matter to know this?

Well, not really.

You can happily live in time (or no time) and not be bothered.

But if you decide to explore this a bit further, stuff can get really interesting.

This ever-present Now that we don’t really sense because, well, it’s ever-present, is the only constant factor in our lives.

It’s never not now.

We’re never not living now.

We’re never not now.

Now is who we are, this mysterious thing we don’t really appreciate or notice because it doesn’t stand out.

The humblest of phenomena, the subtlest of things, yet without it there would be no life.

And no time.

It seems complicated, right?

Only if you think about it.

Because it’s not when you don’t.

Life is always now.

You’re always now.

Life is you, you are life.

Not the person with its moods and different hairstyles.

Not your hunger, your anger, your fear, or your exhaustion.

Not the sound people use when they refer to you.

Not anything that changes, which is almost everything.

Everything but time.

Now.

You are now.

Only always.

And that’s not a paradox.

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