Walter Benjamin’s “Theses on the Philosophy of History” challenges the linear notion of time by suggesting that history is a conglomeration of moments and lost potentials. Rather than a smooth progression, the past intermittently resurfaces to haunt the present, presenting fragments of what might have been. These “lost futures” remind us that historical possibilities—paths not taken or erased by dominant narratives—continue to exert influence on modern realities, urging us to reimagine and reclaim suppressed potentials in the present.