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The Oparinde Christianah
Student @ Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
Student @ Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta
Arrow of Thinking- Quantum Physics 5
<p>Time Only Knows One Direction.</p><p>The strangest thing about time is that it refuses to apologize. It just moves.</p><p>Whether your heart is ready or not.<br/></p><p>Physics calls it the arrow of time. It is the idea that time only travels in one direction. Forward. Never backward. Never sideways.</p><p>Never “just for a minute.”</p><p><br/></p><p>I think that’s the hardest law life has ever obeyed.</p><p>Because there are so many moments I have wanted to return to.<br/></p><p>To conversations before they became goodbyes.<br/></p><p>To bodies before they became tired.<br/></p><p>To homes before they became memories.<br/></p><p>To the version of myself that still believed certain people would stay forever.<br/></p><p>But time is stubborn.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>You cannot unlaugh a laugh. You cannot unbury grief.</p><p>You cannot unread the message that changed everything.<br/></p><p>You cannot become nineteen again.<br/></p><p>You cannot return to the person who did not know betrayal, disappointment, heartbreak, or the weight of growing up.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Time does not negotiate with nostalgia.</p><p>It simply keeps walking. I used to think that was cruel.</p><p>That healing would be easier if life occasionally gave us a reverse button.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>If we could revisit one afternoon.</p><p>Unsay one sentence. Stay five minutes longer.</p><p>Love someone before it became too late.<br/></p><p>But time knows something we don’t.<br/></p><p>Perhaps nothing beautiful survives by standing still.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Time keeps taking.</p><p><br/></p><p>Birthdays. People. Places. Versions of ourselves.</p><p>It steals certainty. It steals innocence.</p><p>It steals the illusion that life can stay exactly as we arranged it.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>But that is not all it does.</p><p>Time is strangely generous too.<br/></p><p>It delivers mornings that have never existed before.<br/></p><p>New people. New prayers. New laughter. New courage.</p><p>New chances to become someone yesterday had not imagined.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>Every sunrise is proof that time does not only remove things. It also introduces things.</p><p>Maybe that is why healing feels unbearably slow because healing travels in the same direction as time.</p><p>It cannot skip ahead. It cannot sprint past grief.</p><p>It must walk through every ordinary day until one morning you realize the wound no longer speaks as loudly as it used to.<br/></p><p><br/></p><p>And maybe that is hope.</p><p>Not getting yesterday back but discovering that tomorrow has been quietly making space for you all along.</p><p>Time only knows one direction.<br/></p><p><br/></p>
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