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The only tense you can't escape, gift-wrapped or not.
means Existing or happening right now, or a gift given to someone, or being in a particular place at a particular time.
from From Latin 'praesens,' the participle of 'praeesse,' meaning to be before or at hand — literally 'being before' someone (prae- 'before' + esse 'to be'). It came into English through Old French 'present.' The 'gift' sense grew from the idea of something placed 'before' a person, offered into their presence — to present a thing was to put it forward, and the thing itself became 'a present.' So the moment you're in and the box with a bow both trace back to simply being right here, before you.
- three meanings
- gift, moment, and standing right here
- root word
- Latin for being before someone
- only reality
- past is memory, future is guesswork
- hardest skill
- being here costs nothing, eludes everyone
present continuous tense — grammatical form used to describe actions happening now, like 'i am writing'
present perfect tense — grammatical form linking past actions to now, like 'i have written'