The Power of Now

[Red Celt]

It's almost like a saying in a way, because no one would say e.g. 'I feel like a pizza in 1x10^-99 seconds'. You just say 'I feel like a pizza right now'.

Well, what you think in the "idea of now" motivates your actions in the immediate future.

e.g.

I feel like a pizza
Walk to kitchen
Open drawer containing odd 'n' ends and takeaway menus
Find one that sells pizza
Walk to phone
Make phonecall
Order pizza
...etc

Short-term future events work a little like short-term memory of past events. You're planning the series of events that will lead to the phone call, starting with your walk to the kitchen. As the events unfold, short-term future events become short-term memory. The transition between those two states are what we think of as "now". Even though it doesn't actually exist.