I think you could look a little bit more deeply into the issues.

We are driven by our desires, whether it’s for a candy bar, or a long and successful life. It is the function of judgement to referee them. To decide which to prioritize and which to resist. Motor and steering.

The anarchy of desire, versus the tyranny of judgement. The heart and the head.

Our life is the moment. We have this narrative based culture, because we are mobile beings with a sequential process of perception and decision making, in order to navigate, then as people we tell stories to one another and those with the most memorable punch lines get repeated the most, so it seems like life should be a narrative arc, with some pot of figurative or literal gold at the end. Be it heaven, or the bottom line.

The fact though, is that this process is an effect. Time is not so much the point of the present, moving past to future, as it is change, turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no literal “dimension” of time, because the past is consumed by the present, in order to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy.

The process goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. As consciousness goes past to future, while thoughts go future to past.

The reality is more thermodynamic feedback loops cycling through everything, than a linear progression of time.

When we are only focused on the end goal, not only do we lose sight of the means to get there, but we short circuit the reality that is our existence.

Maybe we are just riding the wave, but reality is waves, from the macro, to the micro.