Time is essentially an undivided flow:
Like a river, though we are not moving with thr current but against it. Time isn't rushing forward we are. It rushes past us. Thus, even if one got out of the river, they couldn't return to the past because it has passed and continues to do so so quickly. One perhaps could rush faster still towards the future before juping back in, but for what purpose other than curiosity, time is still lost.
Further, like a flow and in contrast to the illusion of time found in a flipbook, it cant be paused in a moment without removing something from context. As drop of water is not the flow of the river (as much as it is too) compared to how a still from a movie is a clear moment in the film. Static images compared seperated by the frame of the film negatove or the corner of the page compared to the uniformity and fluidity of water particles reaching a crital mass. (perhaps this is where the analogy breaks down actually or at least ive lost the words to articulaTe.)
