There, see? That's it; there isn't a time limit.

[The real variable is the realization, he thinks. One could take ten minutes or ten years to realize some significant change took place and funnel it back to its source — the interim is not the point.]

Look, I could be talking straight out of my ass right now— [from a mind extremely good at compartmentalizing baggage, about a thing he did not experience firsthand, ahem,] But try not to moralize your actions. Justification will take up all of your time; there's no trick for it. So— process. Have another party, anything.