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The world you were born into no longer exists.
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It's the opposite: the past doesn't exist anymore and the future is only imagined. All there is is the now.
But what is the now? It is a sliver of time that has no thickness. It is a point in time that well... has no length of time. 0 picoseconds. Thus does it even exist? Your entire perception is of things that only occurred in the past. When you say 'right now', immediately the now you are referring to is already the past. And like you say, the past doesn't exist anymore either.