A time series needs to be stationary or else building a time series model on top is not technically possible. This can be called a prerequisite for model building. For a stationary time series, the mean, variance, and autocorrelation are consistently distributed over time.
The following graphs show the wave forms for Stationary Time Series (top) and Non-Stationary Time series (bottom):
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