We move about and tell stories, so we think of time as the present moving past to future, but change turns future to past. Potential>actual>residual.

Potential is nearly infinite, actual is a tiny fraction and residual is a little bit of that.

Consciousness goes past to future, towards the potential. While thoughts go future to past, towards the residual.

We fluctuate somewhere in the middle, between the anarchy of desire and the tyranny of judgement.