Question

why is a punctual person liked everywhere

Answer 1

because every minute is important in life

Answer 2

There are few things more ubiquitous than lateness—“I’m running late!” is a well-worn exclamation.
But while everyone is late on occasion, I am going to focus on recurrent lateness, be it five minutes or 30. Just as we have come to understand that jokes or slips of the tongue can conceal unconscious attitudes or motivations, we understand that lateness, too, is meaningful—especially when it is habitual or shows up consistently in a particular relationship.
So, what might being late communicate?
Power dynamics deeply influence time management. This influence is often experienced in terms of dominance and submission. As an example, I will describe a patient in my practice who came to see me because her lateness was putting a valued job in jeopardy. Our work on this difficulty offers an opportunity to examine the meaning of being late.
My patient experienced some aspects of employment as humiliating: She felt her boss enjoyed his power. She could not distinguish between his “right” to control her hours and his control over her as a person. It irked her that he might feel morally superior, and she worried that her inability to get to work on time confirmed this. Her protest took the form of chronic lateness.
Lateness is part of a dialogue of push and pull. It passively expresses resentment about the expectations of others—and anger about submitting to external demands. My patient’s sense of entitlement magnified her anger. She wished to defy her boss and to come and go as she pleased. At the same time, since she craved his approval, her defiance was a source insecurity and stress. She also feared losing her job.
Through our work together in therapy, my patient was able to see how she had reacted to her boss as if he were her unreasonable, insatiable father. She came to understand that her lateness was a compromise between opposing forces within herself—her spirit of independence was at odds with her needs for approval. It was a communication that expressed resentment, but also tried to contain it by keeping the transgression small and indirect.