Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession. And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all. In this world, a second is a second. Time paces forward with exquisite regularity, at precisely the same velocity in every corner of space. Time is an infinite ruler.
Time is absolute.
Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you. Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. I've been on a calendar, but never on time.