Time IS a man made construct.
"You've to throw away your wristwatch
You've got to understand
That the time it seems to measure
Is just the movement of its hands"
R.H. Weir/J.P. Barlow
I want to go on record that my thread title was an observation, not a complaint - but I'm glad I said it like that; y'all are saying some wonderful things about it!
Peter (who. if nothing else, is glad to be a coot because he has realized we cannot truly understand our own capacity for love until we have grandkids)