Always Changing
When do we realize time has passed, or is it a constant flow that can not be witnessed in one 'moment' as we like to see? Perhaps looking back at history, through the many years and centuries is the only way to see the immensity of that passing time. Is it a form of substance, entwined with the mass of objects, or constantly changing in relation to who is experiencing?
The longer I live on earth, the more I realize how much is always changing. Even the steady pace o time seems to change over the years. There is a clear motion of things, but no clear direction. Do we witness time when we're alive, and no longer exist in time when we pass? Would time be temporal only in pace with our existence, or does the time-line of mankind's existence mean more in the greater scheme or Space-time.
Current Events
A peculiar way to explain a passage of time, to call it current events is to suggest endlessness or at least something that continues without ceasing. An event, if defined as a single moment in time, can be acknowledges as a point on a timeline, but to claim them as current events would project a more indefinite and always evolving perspective of time.
Like the flow of electricity through a grounded wire, or the stream of water that forms a flowing river, time is an incessant procession of events. How can we so easily accept our history as a collection of distinguishable but overlapping events that seem to bleed into one another as soon as you analyze the finer details.
The flow of a current is not in the individual molecules on a journey, but is the journey that all the molecules take collectively. The river is not the basin or riverbed, nor is it the water that fills the space; the river is the event of water flowing through the basin, and it is this relationship with its actions that define the water as a river.
History
Perhaps then, all of history and current events are really a succession of related events, all intricate and unique in their time and place, but related by the flow of events that compose of that time (or generation, era, epoch, zeitgeist).
Exploring the wordage of Current seems only to blur the lines between what is occurring, and the difference to that of an occurrence, and what is incurring when two things are concurrent. How can two things be concurrent, while being separate occurrences and not a simultaneous and synchronized current event. Things that are currently happening are not occurrences, only after they pass in time, but then how much time must pass for it to become an event not of the current but of the past?
The current of time, for me, is a constant reminder of the ineffable or unexplained motions of existence; ever-present but only noticed when attention is on its passing.