![]() ![]() They live in an ever-present now, which stretches into the past and off into the future. Children have little sense of time nor do the very old. Such a way of interpreting existence is learnt, rather in the way that our brain has to turn the images which hit our retinas upside down in order to make sense of them. It cannot deal with the complexity of reality, so simplifies everything until it can, putting events into an artificial order so they can be dealt with one at a time, rather than all at once as they should be. ![]() It is the only way that such an inadequate instrument as our brain can function. ![]() Generally speaking, our minds impose an entirely artificial order on the world. In other words, she grasped the essential non-existence of time. “Aunt Gertie could not tell the difference between 1928 and now. ![]()
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