Acharya Prashant addresses a student who is troubled by a past period of isolation and lack of interest in studies and family during his twelfth grade. The student expresses confusion and regret over how that phase negatively impacted his academics and social life. Acharya Prashant questions the physical existence of that past, pointing out that it exists nowhere except in the student's memory. He emphasizes that the student is currently sitting in a chair, in the present moment, and that the past is as irrelevant as a dream from which one has already woken up. He argues that clinging to past memories is a form of self-inflicted suffering that prevents one from engaging with the reality of the present.