[No cheating this time. Despite everything, the reaper was a friend after all. She was merely poking around in order to figure out what was going on with him.]

You can get it from doing nothing and everything. The wise and foolish both have it. The more and less you have of it the better and worse you are in life. Time is the only boundary that keeps us from obtaining it. Most take this value for granted. There is NO device to measure it. It governs all and can never be tamed. You gain it by solving this riddle. What is it?