This text analyzes the problematic nature of the metaphor comparing 'flowing' time to a river. The author highlights a fundamental discrepancy between a person's physical relationship with a river and their relationship with time. While one can stand in a river, swim with or against the current, or step out onto the bank to observe the flow from the outside, such choices are entirely impossible within the context of time. A human being is inherently embedded in time and cannot escape it, whether as an external observer or as an autonomous subject standing outside the flow. The reflection emphasizes that it is impossible to leave one's own internal timing or the general temporal frame. This philosophical critique points to the limits of commonly used figurative expressions that may distort our understanding of the ontological nature of temporality. The text reminds us that human existence is so closely intertwined with time that any attempt at an external perspective is fundamentally impossible. Thus, the river metaphor fails to capture the absolute inevitability and omnipresence of time.