In this chapter we read about time, Savater tried to explain what time is using the philosophies of different important people; however what caught my attention the most is what Pascal said about time. He talked not about what it is but how this time answers the question 'when?' and therefore divides time in past, present and future.
Anyways, as I was saying, I liked when Pascal said 'the past should not preoccupy us, since all we can do about it is regret our errors. But the future should concern us even less, since it has nothing to do with us and perhaps we might never reach it, the present is the only time that is truly ours.' (pg.169) I personally liked this reflection since it nowadays many people don't focus on the present and just regret past actions and worry how this will affect their future. Pascal explains really clearly and somewhat beautiful how one should solely worry about the present, and not even worry, but enjoy present.
I decided to talk about this in the final post rather than what time meant, since I believe the meaning of time has no special relation to us, is what comes with time, the actions, that make us enjoy, hate, hope, time in all of its 3 stages, past, present, and future. Finally I believe one should remember that even though we may not explain what time is by definition we can know that we should enjoy time as it passes and don't look back with regret or look ahead with anxiety, for at the present, what will happen is what we choose."Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today, today is a present".
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