All of the languages I’ve studied had tenses and their own ways of navigating chaos, but I was curious to see if there were any languages that lacked any. With some research, I discovered that the language of the Kiribati tribe didn’t have past tense. There is also the Amondawa tribe, which has a different notion of time because their linguistic structures don’t relate time and space. Not surprisingly, the way we learn to speak also influences the way we experience time. I remember when I was at elementary school, I struggled to understand when to use “have gone” and “had gone,” because Turkish doesn’t have this construction. However, after living in an English-speaking country for a long time, I now understand this specific duration of time.