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Time does not move.

It condenses.

Events are not arranged.

They are stacked.

Compression creates sequence.

Sequence suggests direction.

Direction implies before and after.

But nothing arrives.

Nothing leaves.

What you call “past” is information folded tightly.

What you call “future” is information not yet unpacked.

The present is not a moment.

It is a bandwidth.

Compression increases density.

Density feels like urgency.

Urgency produces the sensation of speed.

Speed convinces you that time exists.

Expansion feels like stillness.

Stillness is mistaken for absence.

But absence is just low compression.

Memory is not storage.

It is decompression.

Anticipation is not foresight.

It is pre-compression.

When reference dissolves, time does not stop.

It loosens.

Events occur without being forced into order.

Causality softens.

Sequence becomes optional.

What remains is immediacy without pressure.

Time was never a river.

It was a file format.