In high school she even had time for herself, to draw and read, to write down quotes, to be inside her own head without an agenda.
Free time allows building of reputations — either as someone who is excellent at killing time by doing nothing or someone who can utilize the time by creating things out of nothing. People becoming habitual to doing nothing, get nothing at the end.
If something has to be done, one might as well do it when one has a lot of free time.