Time only moves one way, and that’s a lie

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To say time only moves in one direction is a lie.

Time moves in all sorts of mysterious ways.

Bingeing on too many meetings, filling your calendar with empty jobligations, can cause stress blackouts that might last for months. Time moves in jerky jump-cuts.

Losing your mind in the perfect flow of words can dissolve entire mornings like honey in warm milk. Time moves in glowing, undulant ribbons, propelling you in first-class comfort at high speeds and hyper-consciousness.

Collapsing into a hard-breathing panic attack can draw out every second. Time pulls like taffy, like moving through water heavily encumbered, like sucking the air out of a Ziploc® bag.

Slipping into the orbit of a hypnagogic daydream can feel like shiny dust motes caught by the sun. Time eases slowly in and out with soft power, like a floating jet plane, seen at the right angle, as it comes in for a landing.

Time, however, only moves in one direction.

Forward.