Time is what you make of it. It does not make you or define you or rescue you from mediocrity. Consider for a moment the possibility that time does not exist. That it is just a convenient concept, a theory, that has no basis in reality. The fact is, the only place you exist is now.
Time is a tool that humans have invented to help make sense of the universe.
It is an extremely useful tool that helps us plan and organize and understand our lives. But time is separate from our existance, just as the hammer is separate from the carpenter. Though the hammer is one of the carpenter's most useful tools, though it helps him to fashion his world and accomplish great things, the hammer does not define the carpenter. No, of course not. We must learn to use time for what it is without letting it hold us back.