Time as a Teacher

Time doesn't seem to stop for me these days, and it's sometimes been a source of frustration. Interestingly enough, it's when I am able to divide the day into distinct 'jobs' that the day seems to go best, and I am not as overwhelmed. But I reflect on the deeper meaning of 'not feeling there is enough time', and I think it has to do with two things. One is that having a lot of tasks actually forces a person to make the best use of their valuable energies, thus causing there to be more time available, not less. The second is that it lessens the sense of self, because eventually, you have these moments where you genuinely 'don't know' who you are in all of this. And these are golden moments to realize that there is no solid, permanent, fixed self. Given these two golden opportunities, is there any reason to complain about the lack of time? Alas, not really!
   But this comes to my other point, and that is that there are workable attitudes toward time. One is to always see time as a friend, even when there doesn't seem to be enough of that friend. I am talking about how perhaps one should never feel that 'there is not enough' time to do something, because perhaps the attitude can be more of an accepting attitude toward the time that is...and to also realize that time is a mental construct. When I am in a meeting that relates to something challenging or difficult to wrap my head around, time seems to go on forever..but if I take that same sliver on a clock and observe it while in the bath or having a rest on my bed, that clock sliver seems to go by so fast. It's desire that makes time seem not enough. But what happens if we simply stop desiring more or less time, and simply go with the flow of the moments, paying attention to what needs doing and submitting to that necessity? Perhaps our relationship to time would change.