Time is probably the most universal concept in human life today. It is hard to think that food and money fall short of the power, attention and importance people tend to give to the concept of time. Most people live in fear of wasting precious time, yet they have so little quality time. In “Out Time Is Up” directed by Rob Pearlstein, time and routine rule Dr. Stern’s life. He is a clinical psychologist, leads an ordered life, self-contained, neat, precise, and scheduled. Life should not be spent being a slave to time and the routine that time keeps them on. Time is everything. But time, is not the problem-fear is. With modern day anxieties about time, the restrictions, and it burdens people so much that ironically humans no longer have time for others. Being chained and shackled to time is similar to a germ a fob-germ freak. One of Dr. Stern’s patience is afraid of germs and an extreme case of OCD, she basically is pretty much afraid of life. He tells his patience that they will get better in due time until he got a phone call saying he had six weeks to live himself, then his therapy style changed to being brutally honest and forcing them all to confront their fears. Time is our tyrant. We are chronically aware of the moving minute hand, even of the moving second hand (Huxley 714). Everything people do is calculated by time whether it be by the sun moving through the sky, or by time keeping machines, or by a calendar, all of these are ways to keep time in a constant routine. Routines are made without humans even knowing. They just do what they do the same way every day at the same time, until it is time to go to sleep. Which even sleep keeps time, research suggests that people need a full eight hours of sleep so that is most people do, so they can be at their best to wake up and start the same routine all over again. However, some humans like or need a routine, without it they would be lost. Most likely these people are afra