Time, no matter how simply or abstractly is used as a gauge for summing up the multiple layered realities - symbolic or physical - of humanity, ultimately throws another curve ball in.
Translated existence of humans, with the passage of time ( being a measure, a unit of analysis for their actions, words, thoughts and feelings lead to the conclusion that the instantaneousness of some physical laws, ironically, superimpose a sense of immortality, at least on the behaviors and their consequences as exerted by able living bodies called human beings.
All the rationalities of customs, values, conscientious emotions about right and wrong, sadly become secondary or even unimportant due to the rush of here and now, the perceived necessity of fitting in the moment, lest losing the opportunities to be, whatever that might mean for anyone and that differs for everyone, subjectively and even objectively, at times. The universality of human experiences in terms of time as a quantifier of their lives lived, well lived or poorly lived carve an imposition of sorts if you will, of morbid, dismal and bleak future or agreeable and content future. The continuum of time, in and of itself for everyone, is such a lengthy span of being, that condensing life to all proper affairs and behaviors, harmless and safe memories, in the physical realities of life and living, the times in which it is lived or being lived, may not be possible for all people.
The issue seems to be, as one perspective, one which demands an answer to this query: how to bring the paradigm of timeliness, timelessness, the existence of time as one dimension of life, to account for the substance of what goes on in the life-span of those species affected by time - age, maturation, development, evolution, involution and so forth are all processes, that are substantial and consequential in many direct and indirect ways upon life.
More socially befitting comprehension can be extracted when we can scale the concept of time reversed, as hind sight and retrospection to make peace with time past and with a certain degree of anticipation or predictive validity, draw a time-table for time to come.
Your thoughts on time and as it relates the physical life?