The past, present and future are not tenses in grammar, but states of mind.
Whatever is not any longer on your mind becomes the past. What your mind is busy with now is the present. What your mind will do next is the future. The past is what you no longer before you. The future is that which is not yet before you. And the present is what is now in front of you and what is slipping away from you. Soon it will become your past ... If you are not clinging to the past ... Because clinging to the past is absolute stupidity, because it no longer exists.
So, you are weeping for burnt milk. What has passed is gone. Let bygones be bygones. Do not cling to the present either, because it will pass too and will soon become the past. Do not cling to the future — the hopes, the dreams, your plans for tomorrow — because tomorrow will turn into the present, and then into the past. Everything will eventually be the past. Everything will slip away from your hands. Clinging creates misery. You need to let go.
The figure on this card is so focused on holding on to her box of memories, that she turned her back on the sparkling glass of blessings available here and now. Her nostalgia for the past really makes her dull, stupid and, in addition to everything else, it makes her poor, as you can see that she is dressed in patched and ragged clothes. Of course, she might not be a beggar, but she is definitely closed to the pleasures of life that are offered in the present.
It is time to accept the fact that the past is gone, and any effort to repeat it is a sure way to get lost in the old rubbish that you would have already outgrown if you have not been so busy clinging to what you had already gone through. Take a deep breath, put the box of memories aside, tie it up with a pretty ribbon, if you want, and say a touching and respectful farewell to it. Life goes on, and you are running the risk of turning into a fossil way ahead of your time.