RIght Here, Right Now

If we only understood that time, that little nonexistant, illusionary wave sweeping over us, could make such a big difference, we'd endure it all, face every single hardship and heartbreak head on, because after all's said and done, time really is on our side. For every tear you've ever shed, time will bring you a smile, for every moment of panic you've suffered, time will replace it with joy, for every heartbreak, time will give you love. 
Yes, time plays its games. But who doesn't? And at the end of it all, time's just an illusion anyway. Just like everything else around you. Your only reality remains you. 
It makes me wonder, if time is such a great ally and really does replace tears with smiles in due course, then the understanding of it's illusionary nature should mean that the tears need not be in the present and the smiles in the future. Why not manipulate time so that the tears are already in the past, and the smile appears in the only moment that ever counts anyway. Right now. This moment. This second. For that's all we have anyway. The past is over and done with. The future's too far away. And isn't set in stone in any case. All we have is now. And Now can change everything else. What you do now can change what will happen to you tomorrow. How you feel now can overwrite an incident that caused pain in the past to an incident that taught you a great lesson. We're blessed, we are. Because we have the Now. Yet how many of us actually use this Now to our advantage?
Why wait to see what tomorrow brings if it's in our power to create the tomorrow we want? Why are we so afraid of the Now, when in fact, it's the only thing we ever really have?