Dialogue between a Brother and a Sister Concerning Time

Ali: What’s the time?

Fatimah: It is nearly five to eight by my watch.

Ali: Upon my word, we must hurry up, if you want to catch that train for Rawalpindi.

Fatimah: Why, when is it due out?

Ali: At a quarter past nine exactly.

Fatimah: Oh, never mind. We have plenty of time.

Ali: I am not so sure of what on earth have you been doing? What time did you get up?

Fatimah: I woke up before half-past five. Then I performed ablutions and offered my morning prayer. Now breakfast is ready. Don’t look at me like that.

Ali: For heaven’s sake, get ready! Well, come along. Let us go! We have no time to waste. Time flies, you know.

 

 

2. Manifestation of deceitful or truthful behavior in adolescence is due to a certain attitude of a person towards himself. In turn, the problem of attitude to oneself is presented within the framework of a more general problem of the structure of self-consciousness, the source of the emergence and development of which is the system of human interaction with the external, primarily social world.