Everyone gets the same 24 hours, but not the same obligations. Be fair to yourself and to people with less free time.

Equal hours do not mean equal freedom. One person finishes school and has the evening. Another finishes school, collects a sibling, works a shift, and starts homework at ten. Advice built on a level playing field is not useless, though it does quietly flatter whoever happens to have fewer obligations.

Judge your own week against your actual commitments rather than against somebody who has none. Then extend the same thing outward: the friend who never comes out may be carrying something you cannot see. Ask once, kindly, instead of deciding they do not care.