It lets me know when a friend is coming over to play. I was seeing a rare thing - a friendly relationship with time. I'm not sure I know any adult with that perspective. When I hear grownups talk about time, what they say is usually tainted with fear, anger, frustration, and hopelessness.
Time is a complex, paradoxical concept.
The way I relate to time is based on the conditioning of my mind. For the aborigines, time is spacious, measured by seasons and lifetimes. For contemporary, Western people it is cramped and fleeting, measured even to a billionth of a second. I am coming to know much about myself, my beliefs and habits, by observing my relationship with time. I am also coming to the conclusion that our obsession with speed and technology has contributed greatly to the state of decay that is prevalent in our world today.