...[I]ndividuals always act in the briefest of moments, the here-and-now present. However, individuals’ actions of the present moment emerge from understandings of pasts and anticipations of future selves pursuing future lines of action. The present can be very spacious.
'Introduction to Two Thematic Issues: Defective Memory and Analytical Autoethnography' by Hunt, SA an Junco, NR, in Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 35:4, August 2006, referencing Mead, GH, Mind, self, and society, 1934.