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When Will Then Be Now?
Exploring how to be present in the moment to consciously create reality with some positivity.
One of my favorite comedy movies is Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs. This Star Wars parody features a lot of Ludicrous Speed gags (see what I did there?) silly one-liners, puns, and great characters.
There is a great exchange between two of the bad guys, Dark Helmet and Colonel Sanders, that happens as they search for the heroes. For this search, they watch the videocassette of Spaceballs. In the process they reach the exact moment of the film they are within, which gets surreal and leads to this:
Dark Helmet: What happened to then?
Col Sanders: We passed it.
When?
Just now. We’re at now, now.
Go back to then!
When?
Now.
Now?
Now!
I can’t.
Why?
We missed it.
When?
Just now.
When will then be now?
Soon!
As amusing as this scene is, it’s something I know many of us struggle with as we go about our day-to-day lives. Moments come and go, and in the jumble of linear time and the progression of past, present, and future it’s easy to question when then will be now.
Or is it when will now be then?
The word “then” can be both past and future tense. Past tense such as “back then they were happy,” and future tense as in “first you write, then you publish.”
