The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. – Albert Einstein
Time is an illusion, which makes being controlled by time delusional. The past does not exist and neither does the future.
The only true reference point you have to this moment in time and to this thing you call existence, is a feeling of presence, of being here in this body, of seeing the World through these eyes.
You are victim of time to some degree, because it has become the accepted state of norm in our fast-paced, highly motivated and highly-strung Society.
For this reason it is important that you understand that to not be present is to be torn between two Worlds, the past and the future, neither of which exist.
Time for you is real. You are certain that there is a chronological order to events that can not be ignored. However, possibilities abound when you step away from that linear narrative.
If you look for flaws in the cosmic clock idea, where time ticks by at the same rate for everyone everywhere, you find them.
Physicists have worked them out with theories, poets with words, and painters with images. All the dimensions of space, and all the dimensions of time exist in this universe simultaneously.
Everything that has happened, is happening or will happen continue to be so – then is now, now is now, when is now, how soon is now.