While certain deep-thinkers, temporal-deniers and general know-it-alls will condescendingly inform you that time is nothing but an abstract or social construct, it’s important to remember that these tardy types are always far too early or far too late for absolutely everything in life and, as such, can just bore-off.
Time is vital to the way we organise our lives and, as such, being aware of it is, well, essential to existence. This is why the ancient Egyptians invented the sundial and the rest of the world followed up with sandglasses, waterclocks and candles, as the centuries of the Middle Ages slowly ticked by. Then, finally, in 1273, somewhere around teatime, some bright spark invented the mechanical clock and timetelling really moved up a gear.
