No matter how caught up you are in 'what is going on' there is always a part that is perfectly detached and out of the flow of time. In fact is how there can be a something 'going on' at all, that it can be the experience of a somebody, namely you. It is not something that befalls you but the very nature of this peculiar kind of being. And so the detached self is no more true than the caught up one - they have equal weight, metaphysically. Not seeing this balance is the source of much error.