For me—time is a measurement, but what we do within that time, who we do it with, and how it is spent is more important. It can be a moment or a year—but it’s still a measurement.
What I despise, is how people measure the quality of others, as people, by time.
As someone with a brain injury that affects my perception of time, and as someone who studies linguistics of world languages (which vary in their perception of time), I’ve learned that TIME as a concept—is fluid, even though people think it’s an unquestioned, established, and concrete concept.
Punctuality is almost a religion to some people, and that’s a very Eurocentric concept—and they do punish others for not following the sanctity of their view of time…
So, Time….. it’s a social construct. What we DO is more important.