Nicholas walked up to me as I was sitting in the family room.

Dad, he said, I figured something out.  What’s that son?

Time is the most important thing. When you think about it, time is all we have.

You know what else? What, I asked?

All this matter, everything around us, you know the things you hear about like dimensions and stuff, none of them could exist without time. Without time, nothing exists. Without time, we don’t exist.

Time is the most important thing.

And then he walked off.