We prefer to think of time as a concept as opposed to a dimension.
We prefer to think of when we are as opposed to where we are in it.

We must experience where we are.
Now is the only when.

Where has it been all my life.
It's been here, now, my whole life.

Now comes from nowhere.
Now has been here.

The future is there.
the past is there.
Was and will be are mere directions.
How far was that, how far will be that.

How long until the now I hope for.