In the initial stages, a child’s sense of time develops through its relations with intimate others – adults who already embody within themselves certain patterns of temporality. Those patterns, in turn, reflect and are largely created by culture – that system of visible customs and invisible assumptions, unwritten codes and subterranean values which structures, even if we are not overtly aware of it, our perceptions and views of the world. In Western cultures, for example, it is an unwritten but widely understood rule that we need to learn how to show up for an appointment at a mutually agreed
