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That definitely was the point of confusion. For future reference, in English, now implies almost immediately.why not fixing it now?
- "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.
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.