If you are honest, you will find that significant chunks of your time are being taken up by activities you do not even want to admit to yourself. The thing is, we ought to be objective; we ought to know where it is really going. And you might discover that nobody is actually all that short of time. Time is there; it’s just that when it is spent on activities that please us, we try to hide that time because it’s our little joyful secret.
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Questioner: How do you balance that work and life and fun relationship together?
Acharya Prashant: You will have to start from seeing where your time is actually going. See, time is not necessarily purely objective. There is one thing called the material time that you look at in a chronometer, in a watch, you could call it a chronological time; and there is another thing that we experience—time in the head as we experience it, time in the head, mental time, psychological time.
Psychological time does not run the same way as material time. Intervals that are borings to us, distasteful to us, dislikeable to us, stretch within; they are experienced as bigger and more important than they really are. So, for example, I took around one and a half hours coming to your college, I am at Juhu. But these one and a half hours appeared longer than one and a half, right?
Now, if I am not being very objective about my time, I will feel as if of my, let’s say, seventeen-eighteen waking hours, and the fourteen odd hours that I have available for work, to and fro commute has taken away six hours, whereas objectively how much has been expended? One and a half plus another one and a half, so that just three. But because the Mumbai traffic obviously is not something anybody can relish, because you cannot relish it, because every moment feels like a tax, a burden; so, internally this expands to six, and that’s ok. And that’s ok to know that this time is not likeable, so it is appearing longer.
