By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Chronocanine Envy:
Sadness experienced when one realized that, unlike one's dog, one cannot live only in the present tense. As Kierkegaard said, "Life must be lived forward.

By the time we've made it, we've had it.

I was in 20 Shakespearean plays by the time I was 20.

Time creates history. Meditation creates the moment.

The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.