What is ‘personal time’?

Following is an excerpt from a samvaad (dialogue) session with Acharya Prashant.

Question(Q): Acharya Ji, it happens many times during the day that there may be happiness in the background, but if any sad event happens then it takes more time to recover to my normal, common state.

Why is it so?

Acharya Prashant(AP): Don’t give yourself so much time. The Satan was once asked, “When you want to fool people, what do you tell them?” He replied, “I whisper in their ears, ‘Your time is, ‘your’ time’.”

Why do you have so much of personal time? Why do you have free time at all?

Free-time is the most un-free time.

Why is your time not committed, not dedicated to a higher purpose?

If you will have free time, what will you do?

You will only use that time to destroy yourself.

Your time must be a something that you are merely a trustee of.

When you are a trustee of something, then you don’t own it, then you just look after it.

You maintain it, you keep it.

You don’t possess it, you don’t utilise it.

And even if you utilise it, you utilise it for a goal that is not your personal goal. Why do you utilise your…