Perpetual Now Five years ago I was a different man then I am now. Five months ago I was a different man then I am now. Five hours ago I was a different man then I am now. Five minutes ago I was a different man then I am now Five seconds ago I was a different man then I am now. In the three minutes it took to write this I am no longer the man I was when I began it. Every moment that passes I become someone new, my experiences constantly forming and reforming the man I am and the man I will become. The only time I am truly me is in what my brain perceives as the present. In the perpetual now I exist and always will exist.