Reflections: Is TIME like the flow of a river?

Most of us have had the experience of traveling by car and there may come a time when we have to go a few kilometers from one city to another and we remember an important document, so we can go back to look for it and continue with the procedures in our daily lives. Depending on the speed we are going in the car, it may take more or less time, but we can resolve the specific situation that we have been presented with, such as forgetting a document, but in many situations in our lives that time may be unrecoverable, because it always goes in a positive direction, forward, impossible to recover and that is why life goes from fertilization, birth, development, life and death.

I make the comparison of a person who throws himself with a float into the flow of a river, it takes us floating through its course and as we can see in the previous image, we do not see beyond a few meters in front and a few meters behind after each curve it makes. If we were educated to take advantage of time, we would at least try to leave a trace or a footprint somewhere along the way, with good works, leaving some legacy by living life to the fullest.

As time goes by we can gain experience, but just like the water in a river that passes by a specific place, it will NEVER pass by there again, making it impossible for the same ideal conditions to exist for us to try again, teaching us a hard and rigorous lesson so that we do not let opportunities pass us by, if we do not take the train in one of its cars, we will have to take the next train and start another trip.