There are moments when memory defies chronology. A distant experience from years ago suddenly appears in the mind, alive with all the freshness of the present. What seemed buried in the past returns uninvited, as if it had never truly left. In that instant, time loses its authority; the memory has escaped its cage. This everyday phenomenon hints at a deeper philosophical truth: time is not always the measure of reality. Some things—like memory, meaning, and creation—may exist outside its flow....