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Maybe time does go at different speeds in some way we don't yet understand, because it does seem to happen that people agree that a particular day, or year, has gone specially quickly or slowly.
But let's assume that the amount of time in each day is constant, always the same: and that, taken over the year, the amount of disposable time in each day is on average the same - say you need to sleep eight (or nine, or five) hours, making meals, eating, washing clothes and yourself, cleaning and clearing up your living space, maybe even working for someone else and travelling to work, for most people all these things are fairly constant, and take up less than 24 hours a day. What's "left over" is an amount of time which is not infinite, but has limits: and, if you think carefully, you know how big that amount of time is. This is the time you consciously decide how you're going to use: and you have a lot of things you'd like to do, which it's quite obvious would take up more time than you've got. What most people do is to look wistfully, and quite unrealistically, at the load of things they'd like to do; and hope, quite forlornly, that the time they have will be enough. Of course, it isn't, so they end up conscious of all the things they didn't have time for, express themselves dissatisfied with life and the amount of time it has allotted them, maybe feel guilty for good measure, and together with other people build up an idea that it's somehow Time's fault that he's inadequate.
People, as a species, have a strong instinct for seeing the possibility of improving things (that's maybe what makes them the dominant species for the time being, why there's civilisation and development): but you can't see the possibility for improvement without at the same time being aware that what you have isn't enough - it's the same thing.
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