Future changes past. Leela has very patiently tried to explain time to me, to help me begin to see what it is and isn't, and I have to confess I just don't get it. But I've altered my patterns of behavior to accommodate her outlandish ideas. It's easy to see examples of how the past affects the present; I now routinely expect to find examples of the present altering the past. If I step outside the limited but valid view that only the present exists, what I see are examples of my moment of destiny in 2006 affecting all parts of my life, from before I was born until right now, and clearly extending into the future. Waking up a little bit changed my past present and future.
Dimensions. Leela blew apart my limited understanding of time as she was teaching me about reincarnation. That story is told in the first three paragraphs of Reincarnation. The fourth paragraph explains why I still don't get it, and never will.