This text critically examines Jan Patočka's conception of the subject's relationship to its past and future. The author argues that every true event, standing above the primordial or virtual level, must actively relate to its own history and future potential. The text specifically challenges Patočka's assertion that animals lack any real relations beyond currently present reality. The author contends that such a view significantly underestimates the ontological integrity and internal dynamics of an event. A true event is real as a whole, even if it reveals itself only through successive, currently active phases. A central theme is the redefinition of "real relations" not as externally observed metrics or observations, but as internal activities or actions of the subject. Real relations take the form of actions that are possible only as the actions of a specific subject. This approach rejects the reduction of temporal relations to purely mental processes and promotes a view of the event as an active whole that constitutes its own temporal integrity.