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You Can’t “Win Back” What You Lost in a Previous Session -- Here’s Why

Our language and literature is peppered with a variety of ways of saying that you can’t go back in time.

About 2,500 years ago, the philosopher Heraclitus said, as quoted later by Plato, “Everything changes and nothing remains still…. You cannot step twice into the same stream.” It’s no longer the same water the second time, and hence not the same stream.

The North Carolina writer Thomas Wolfe titled one of his books You Can’t Go Home Again. Home, he had discovered, would never be the same place that you remembered.