The Motion in Time and the Language of the Past, the Past and the Future

There are different ways to express that and your language can have some of one, some of the other. They talk about reversing the direction of time. People who tend to read text, arrange left to right, tend to lay out time as proceeding left to right. In I'mara, the patterns verse, the future is said to be behind the observer while the past is in the future.