Where did 2013 go?
Where does the past go?
Does it go anywhere?
Is time like this long road?
Was 2013 like a car, making its way along time’s highway? And disappearing into the far distance as we look?
That’s one way to look at it, but then look at this tree….
The very shape of the tree tells a story, contains a history, reveals its past. Doesn’t it?
So what if time isn’t like a straight line, with the future speeding towards us, and the past soon behind us and out of sight?
What if time is cumulative? What if the past doesn’t go away anywhere, but instead continues to exist underneath the present?
Doesn’t the present emerge from an ongoing interaction between what’s possible, what’s happened already, and what else is happening now?
Think of 2013 as still here, underneath today, and out of which 2014 will grow. After all, if 2013 wasn’t still here, then what would 2014 emerge from? Nothingness?
Heroes Not Zombies 
According to Stephen King, The Langoliers handle the job of devouring yesterday, hence we are left with our memories as we race into tomorrow.lol
The Preacher in Ecclesiastes writes: ‘Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before.’ Is this another way of expressing the idea that time is cumulative, that the past, the present and the future are one? And that nothing, therefore, is wasted?
Now that is food for thought. If thoughts of the past are energy generated from their hosts is all the energy stored or dissipated? If stored then the past is not lost but where is it stored? If dissipated has it gone forever? What is forever?