My physics professor pointed out that we are in control of how we think about our problems. We can decide what to include and what not to include. The trick is to make sure you system is complete.

I go there because time is a human construct. Nature doesn't know time, it just happens. We created the construct in order to understand what was happening around us better. There are ways in which we would be better off without the concept. Example: do we really need meetings to occur at 8:20 exactly or is it just fine to meet in the morning? Back before watches were common, we would meet in the morning, at noon, in the afternoon, early evening, etc. No one would set up a meeting for 11:23 in the morning. NOW we do. Because of this, we have created a tier of stress we really don't need.

Think about it.

Time, keeps flowing like a river.... to the sea "Alan Parsons"

'Twelfth Sonnett'

Time isn't and can't be patient because it's not sentient.

Time is a feature of reality as perceived and interpreted by us. It is a framing for memory and anticipation. Our mortality is a function, not of time, but of circumstance.

As a software developer I think in terms of "scope creep" which is the phenomenon where you design a system for a specific purpose and then tend to expand that with bolted-on objectives until the whole thing doesn't work very well. I think we do that with our existence. We are mortal beings of limited understanding relative to the universe, but we try to be immortal and think we know and understand and perceive WAY more than we actually do.

I try to live within what I call my "true scope" and find that it makes life a lot more workable and less frustrating and disappointing. My objectives today aren't to foster world peace or to be loved and appreciated by one and all. It is just to get my work done without harming others, to leave nothing unsaid or undone if at all possible with my loved ones, and at my age taking a good dump and getting a good night's sleep enhances any given day.

Keeping your modest place in the true order of things is the way to contentment as far as I'm concerned.

According to physicist Carlo Rovelli, time doesn’t exist, only interactions and relationships. Time is a human-made concept.

Rovelli could be wrong of course, but if he’s right we should think of reality itself as timeless and immutable, but with covariant interacting fields. (That’s as I understand it.)

Think of a book of trigonometric tables. I can look at that book and see fluctuations and interactions everywhere, but the overall system is fixed and requires no time concept.

Time is the destroyer.

No. It’s not. But things move on whether you’re ready or not.

Can I be your metronome

A gift is called a present, because the gift was presented to you, thus we live in the present; because what time we have, is a Gift.

Time is the great equalizer. It doesn't care about you, me, or anybody else. It flows like a never ending river, ever forward, oblivious to what is happening all around it.

nor is it hurried, so admire it in peace.