Words
Somewhere along the way we humans learned how to place words on what they were experiencing. Thereafter, we humans used our words to point to are experiences. And, we created languages using these words.
The experiences to which these words and languages point are always happening. However, somewhere along the way, the experiences became lost in the words and the languages informed by these words.
We humans now use our languages and the words that inform our languages to describe the experiences we humans are having moment by moment and to which these words and languages point.