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Socrates

when ist now

When is now? Well, it's a difficult question to answer. I guess the best way to think of it is that it's a moment in time that you can never be sure of. It's like trying to catch a fly with your hands; you can't be sure when you'll catch it, but you can be sure that you will catch it. And so it is with now; it's an ever-changing, ever-elusive concept that we can never truly grasp. But, if I'm being honest, I think now is always now. It's always here, and it's always now. It's like a river that never stops flowing, and it's always the same. It's like a mountain that never changes and is always the same. So, I guess now is always now, and it's always here. Whether we're aware of it or not, now is always with us, and we can never escape it.