The Clockmaker of Breathless Moments

A clockmaker built a device able to freeze time for anyone who touched it. People used it to pause their happiest seconds. But soon they realized they were collecting stillness, not experiences. A young woman shattered the device and shouted, “Let life move!” Time resumed, rushing forward in a torrent, and those who had tried to hold onto moments watched them dissolve. The clockmaker whispered: “You cannot save what was meant to flow.”