FUTURE, PRESENT, PAST -- HOW MUCH? SAYS HE!

Look at what I got from a very deep thinking relative.  Here I was talking about "when" and he comes at me with this: "So, what is there more of?  Future, Past, or Present.  Everything that is Future will eventually become Present and everything that is past was, at one time, Present.  Are they finite or infinite.  We could get together with the Dion brothers, Ray, Al, Ed, Norm and Don and discuss this for all eternity, which is, of course, infinite!  OMG!"

I actually sat down and thought about this.  How much?  I liked the above suggestion because I know that the Dion brothers would like nothing more than to be able to discuss a philosophical topic for all eternity.  I think that's why they all died so young.  They wanted all eternity to hash things out.  

So, all day long I tried to work it out and here is the result.

I figure that in this life we have different quantities of different things, except for the present.  The perceptible "present" we really do not have.  In a philosophical way, we do have the future, but only as potential reality that has not yet been concretized in the mill of present to past.  Once time has passed through that process, it is real and we own it.  We name it "past."

However the measure of how much of anything we have, either in potential reality or in memorized reality also changes on a daily basis because these two realities are changing at every minute.  Until we have passed the midpoint of our life, we have more future than past.  Then, we have more past than future.  UNTIL, we finally take possession of the eternal present, in which there is no future and no past, just...infinity.

Then, we Dions are going to sit around, drinking what ever it is that you drink in eternity, and talk it all out forever.  Oh, will we ever be happy.  You all have NO idea.  We might even get around to discussing this little question, if we can ever get past the one that they've already been working on for about 60 human years,whatever it may be.  I could almost bet that it is about the eternal question, never to be settled, which is:  Fly fishing is the extreme test of the true human.  Casting tin spoons into the water from a boat is for those who don't really appreciate the art and the science of sport fishing.  I am just absolutely sure that EFR Dion hasn't sat down during this whole time defending the art form and the scientific challenge of fishing for pickerel by casting for them from an Old Town canoe.

I just know it.

Tomorrow:  Who was the first baseball player to get a $100,000.00 per year contract?  You get a bonus point if you know the year.