Present

[citation needed] Buddhism and many of its associated paradigms emphasize the importance of living in the present moment—being fully aware of what is happening, and not dwelling on the past or worrying about the future.

[7] This does not mean that they encourage hedonism, but merely that constant focus on one's current position in space and time (rather than future considerations, or past reminiscence) will aid one in relieving suffering.

Christianity views God as being outside of time and, from the divine perspective past, present and future are actualized in the now of eternity.

[9] Thomas Aquinas offers the metaphor of a watchman, representing God, standing on a height looking down on a valley to a road where past, present and future, represented by the individuals and their actions strung out along its length, are all visible simultaneously to God.

[clarification needed] It follows from Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity that there is no such thing as absolute simultaneity.

One has to conclude that in relativistic models of physics there is no place for "the present" as an absolute element of reality, and only refers to things that are close to us.

[12] Einstein phrased this as: "People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion".

Verbs in the present perfect tense indicate actions that started in the past and is completed at the time of speaking.