Time is invisible to humans. Humans can only see change… not time. When humans begin to see time, they will begin to evolve beyond human.
A) Humans operate in a relatively short time frame: in minutes, hours, days, weeks, months… very few can process more than a year.
B) Humans cannot see the time frame that other humans are operating in, so connect w/ small talk and sports…to adjust to a common short time frame (ex. nice weather”, “how about those Lakers”, etc.)
C) When people’s time frames are far apart, real communication will not occur. (ex. trying to teach history to a hungry ten year old; or fixing a problem when one person is thinking in days and the other is thinking in years.)
D) Time frames differ among males and females… typically, time frames are shorter for men than for women… likely the reason that males tend towards aggression and females towards nurturing. (ex. for sex: men think in minutes, women think in months)
E) Time frames can be stretched or compressed: stretched when a person who thinks in hours stretches it to days/weeks, or compressed when a person experiences “fight or flight”.
F) Human selfishness is actually a reflection of time frames:
More selfish – shorter time frame (ex. “fight or flight” – split seconds)
Less selfish – longer time frame (ex. “free public education” – hundreds of years)
G) When humans expand (stretch) their time field (2, 5, 10, 100 years), it becomes difficult to be selfish and the interconnectedness of everything begins to unfold.
H) Selfless humans tend to operate outside of time… in an infinite (and ever present) time frame.
Animals (humans) operate in a short time frame that helps them survive. Short time frames are good for quick responses, but the problem with short time frames is that they cannot see slow moving or less visible problems.
The Middle Way 
This is a kind of a Wake Up (awakening). Humans have 5 senses… and “time” can be like a 6th sense, once humans learns how to “see” time. Until humans can “see” 5, 50, 100 years into the future, what chance do they have of reducing or eliminating unnecessary suffering?