There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
Some people think of the glass as half empty.
I think of the glass as too big. The self-made scholar Ellen Dissanayake thinks so, but it has taken her a lifetime of experience outside the academy to find out why. The best-known scholars of evolution and human behavior, speak of Dissanayake with admiration and respect. Written in 1898, it is not one of his greatest works, but it nonetheless had a deep effect upon me because it resonated so strongly with my own life. Essential to his dream are gooseberry bushes.