The Concept of Time

The flow of time is not often unidirectional. It flows backwards as well. It does not mean that time can be rewound and made to tick once more from the beginning. It does not mean that we can reenact the past. It does imply that time is haunted by an ordeal. We often find time reversed even when we are moving forward. We return, we repeat and we relive. But this return, this repetition, this reliving is not to same as when we experience it. Time is neither extracted from the past nor temporalized from the present. There is no primordial time to which we can return. Often primordial time can be comprehended through clock time of our everyday habits. If time is just counting hours and minutes then it is a mere representation, not an actuality.