...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to admire it as a whole. -pg. 19

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The passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to admire it as a whole. This quote is an accurate depiction of how we perceive time and how we become trapped in our perception. Our minds do not like change and we can't stand to see the past as it really was. We like to call the past a mistake and hope for things to go back to the way they were.

But day after day, we are faced with reality and we realize that the past wasn't always perfect and there were bound to be problems and changes that arose since then that we couldn't have seen or known about then. We would rather ignore these facts and pretend the past never happened at all than accept them and move on with our lives.

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