finished events that took place within an unfinished period of time is my whole life or my time here in Paris all right so it's not that the action is still occurring it's that the action took place within a period of time which is still active. For example i've drunk too much coffee so i'm feeling really hyperactive okay so the coffees are all finished but there's a present effect that's the effect is i've got caffeine running through my body and i'm hyperactive you know? We also use past simple, present perfect and just to emphasize that the event very recently happened  that may be another connection between a past event and the present is that the past event happened very