Is Time Real?

Or is it a social construct?

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Time.

It’s the thing that rules just about every American’s day to day life. Between schedules, deadlines, business hours, appointments, sleep schedules, library book due dates, trying to squeeze in all the things we need to do every day as a moderately to extremely busy person, it all goes back to time and time management.

Most of us are too busy having our lives dictated by time and attempting time management to ever ask ourselves: Is time even “real”? Or is it a social construct?

Merriam Webster’s dictionary defines social construct as; an idea that has been created and accepted by the people in a society.

Google says a social construct is a concept that exists not in objective reality, but as a result of human interaction.

Many scientists and philosophers subscribe to the school of thought that time doesn’t even exist, arguing that it is merely an illusion.

Our experience of time varies upon many factors, including attention levels, emotions tied to particular people or events, memories, nostalgia. Time flies when we’re having fun but drags when we’re bored or stagnant. One shows that time passes faster as we age.