Is Time the Distance Between the Past and the Future?

In order to build a model of reality, we must start with our experience. Have you ever left what we call now and visited that place we refer to as the past? We can all think about it, but when we think about the past, a thought doesn't take place in the past. It takes place now. And so i'm hoping that maybe yu cane inset, well, again, i'd like to to respond to you, conner, experientially, rather than philosophically. So time, i is, it's difficult, if not impossible, to defind time without referring to time itself.