That definitely was the point of confusion. For future reference, in English,
now implies almost immediately.
- "Something is happening now" doesn't mean "at any time in the future something happens"; it means "right at the moment (the statement is spoken) the thing occurs".
- "You can see it now" means that if you were to look immediately, you would be able to see something.
- "Now I don't know what to do" means that, as of the moment this is said, the person is uncertain how to act.
Using
now to mean something other than this is perhaps possible in other languages, but in English it implies something immediate.
Sometimes it
might mean "something extremely soon", although that's pretty uncommon. For instance, a statement like "And now we go to war" means "we will begin getting armies ready to move" and so on. But even then it doesn't mean there is any delayed action, and certainly not that it would only happen in the next several months or something. The word
now just isn't used in this way in English.