This is of second nature to us all. Time, then, is but a moment of conciousness. Time is a focus. Time is a means by which we organize and crystallize, the present. It is a means by which we are able to plan the future and measure the past.
Time is a focus.
Often that focus, then, is time. The moment of death, interestingly enough, is not as sharply in focus, and so it should be. Death is less clearly an ending as our first breath is a beginning. Time then is our security, our stability, an anchor. On many occasions a New Year's Eve, a birthday, an important event proceeds, supposedly marking in time, something of significance.