The older you get, the more important time becomes--because you're running out of it. The less time you have, the more things you have to do. It's just a fact of life. However, the more things you do, the less significant they seem. What ends up happening, is that you're doing more and more increasingly petty things, in less and less time. The pressure builds because now you have even less time, and you do things even faster. The faster you do things, the more things you do, the less signficant these things seem. ...vicious cycle.