Life is like a sentence.

The end is just punctuation.

What matters, is how well you tie the rest of the story together.

A dance, not a race.

It's just that as these linear, goal oriented creatures in this cyclical, circular, reciprocal, feedback generated reality, we haven't really internalized the implications of the world being round, not flat.

For instance, as mobile organisms, this sentient interface our body has with its situation functions as a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our sense of time is the present going past to future. It is the basis of culture and civilization, as narrative and history.

Yet the evident fact is that activity and the resulting change turns 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.

Like a tapestry being woven of strands being pulled from what was woven.

Energy is conserved, because it manifests this presence, creating time, temperature, pressure, color and sound, as frequencies and amplitudes, rates and degrees.

So this presence goes past to future, because the patterns generated come and go, future to past.

Energy drives the wave, the fluctuations rise and fall. No tiny strings necessary.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Suggesting consciousness manifests as energy.

The digestive system processes the energy, feeding the flame, the nervous system sorts the information, signals from the noise, with the circulation system in the middle.

Galaxies are energy radiating out, as structure coalesces in. More thermodynamics, than just linear, temporal flow.

Feedback loops.