I Hate the Past Tense

[zingerella]

I especially hate the perfective aspect. If things must take place in the past, let them be continuative, let them be open-ended, let them be imperfective. Let them speak not of things finished but of things begun and things ongoing. It would even be o.k. if they were conditional, or mood-altered and subjunctive, if the statement were "this would happen," "this might happen," or even, if we must speak of things past, "this might have happened."

But "this happened" is final, and speaks of things done.

I only just came to believe in the future tense, more or less vivid. Must I so quickly be relegated to the past?