Time and our hectic life

This hectic life is our own making. We invented time to better organize our lives, and we ended up enslaving ourselves to it.
We count the minutes and the seconds fearing that our life would end abruptly leaving us unfulfilled with a list of unfinished tasks and unaccomplished dreams.
Time brought with it benefits, such as the ability to structure our lives according to an agreed upon system.
Ancient Egyptians had a quite similar time system to ours, but it was more flexible, it allowed for adding and subtracting hours depending on the season and the alignment of stars.
For some tribes and rural societies, mornings started at the break of dawn, while the end of a working day was marked by the appearence of the first shade of darkness.
How we measure time changed dramatically over time. It went from sundials and water clocks, to hourglasses, to the more sophisticated digital ones.
The devices differed, but the goal was the same, grasping the passing of time and organizing it to later be able to control it, and bend it to fit our need.
We all have experienced situations where hours seemed like minutes, or where minutes seemed to last forever.
The passage of time is subject to our emotional state. Whether we feel sad, depressed or elated, our perception of the elapsed time varies greatly.
Change also accentuates the passage time. We feel that we have spent a long period of time in a place if our stay was dense with events and novelties.
Engrossed in novel and interesting tasks, in a relaxed state, we can accomplish more, there is less resistance to the flow of life, things happen naturally, and more often than not, time vanishes from our consciounsness.
When fretting about deadlines, anxiously and constantly scrutinizing the movement of the needles of our clock, we accomplish less, we are working against resistance, racing the invisible forward motion of a manufactured concept, TIME.