It might help to first consider what is time.

We are these mobile organisms, so we experience our lives as a sequence of perceptions, in order to maneuver. To sort and order and decide. Then we build cultures out of telling stories. So our experience is of this flow, from past to future.

The reality is change, turning future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns.

There is no dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is "conserved," because it is the present, not some dimensionless point between past and future.

It creates time, as well as temperature, pressure, color, sound. Frequencies and amplitudes. Time is frequency, events are amplitude.

As process, energy goes past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past.

Energy drives the wave, while the ripples rise and fall.

As consciousness goes past to future, while perceptions, emotions and thoughts go future to past.

Yet it is the gut and heart processing and circulating this energy, while the central nervous system sorts and orders the information. Desire and judgement.

So if we want to look beyond our own finitude, it isn't in terms of stretching out the sequence, as it is connecting to the fields within which we exist. Understanding the various clocks and spaces. Synchronizing with what we must, harmonizing with the rest.

Yesterday doesn't cause today, the sun shining on this spinning planet creates this cycle of days and nights.

Our lives are like sentences in a larger story. It doesn't matter how long or short they are, but how well they tie together the world around them. Then their reach extends far beyond their grasp.

See much, judge little.