why is there time?

You only used 10 of your 30 minutes here. You should probably play slower.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/2730300049?username=willowpark

And the last blitz game you lost wasn't on time either.

But to answer your question, it's so games don't last forever.

Without time controls, one player could compensate for lack of talent and knowledge but taking endless amounts of time to perform exhaustive analyses and win by brute force rather than skill.  So to keep chess a game of skill, you need time controls.

It wouldn't technically be a game anymore as a period where no one will play anything given an endless amount of time would be reached no matter the situation

In the nineteenth century there was a complaint that some players were just "winning with their arse" by being prepared to sit there longer than their opponents.

i played in an elementary school tournament when i like 8 or 9 and there was no time limit.  I had mate in 2 and the guy across from me REFUSED to move because he knew he would lose.  I lost the tournament by 1 win and was super pissed about it, I still am when i think about it.  Time forces the losing side to move (or lose on time), because when there are no time controls you can literally not move in order to not lose.

There was a maybe 30-40 kids on long tables with cheap chess sets and two volunteer chess coaches at this thing.  I beat the guy who won iirc.  In any event it turned me off chess for over a decade because of how unfair it was when that little prick 8 year old REFUSED to move when there was no time enforcement.

What a fact

Yes, Kim Kardashian might be world champion with the old rules..

why is there time?

Why is there causality?

1942, they don't like that I flagged them. And I on and on it

because although we tell time it also tells us

The old physics department line goes "Time is just nature's way of preventing everything from happening all at once."  There is, however, a small but influential school of thought in physics which holds that everything is indeed happening all at once, and that the apparent passage of time is merely an artefact of consciousness.  I like to illustrate this with the example:  What if you were taking your first solo drive on a busy freeway, losing your virginity AND catching your first really big fish all at once; what would you do?  You would prioritize, naturally.  You would pull over to the side of the road, tell the girl to back off for a minute and reel the fish in through the window of your truck, same as I would. 

Given how my lack of chess preparation slows my speed of moving in chess, I always think of the line from Shakespeare's Richard II, "I wasted time, now doth time waste me."

How did the game end if he refused to move? When I play chess I dont use time controls either, but it's friendly games and not tournaments.