Gurugram News: A very surprising and thought-provoking case has come to light from Gurugram, a high-tech city adjacent to Delhi. Here, a person earning Rs 40 lakh annually (about Rs 3.33 lakh per month) and traveling in a BMW car considers himself very poor. Not only this, due to the stress of his ‘poverty’ he is not even able to sleep the whole night. This may sound strange and imaginary, but it is becoming a bitter reality among today’s corporate and working professionals. Dr. Sunny Garg, Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Everhope Oncology, has shared this interesting and eye-opening incident on social media.
According to a media report, Dr. Sunny Garg says that last week a 34-year-old professional came to his clinic, who lives in a 2BHK flat in a prime area of Gurugram. He is on a handsome salary package and drives a BMW car. The doctor revealed that the man sat in front of him and said very seriously, ‘Doctor, I feel that I am very poor. I don’t sleep the whole night worrying about this.
The doctor said, ‘I did not laugh at his statement, because this is not the story of just one person. This is the bitter reality of today’s Indian middle-class and upper-middle class professionals, about which hardly anyone in the society talks openly.
The scale of ‘richness’ and ‘poverty’ has changed: What is modern poverty?
While analyzing this mental condition, Dr. Garg said that if seen from the perspective of statistics and economy, then this person earning Rs 40 lakh annually is included in the list of top 1% richest people of India. Despite this, he considers himself poor, because now the basis of comparison in the society i.e. the ‘reference point’ has completely changed.
According to the doctor, in earlier times a common man used to compare himself with a neighbor in his village or locality whose son did an ordinary job. But today’s youth compares himself with that 28 year old boy on LinkedIn or Instagram, who sold his startup for crores and today is sitting on a net worth of Rs 80 crores. This is the ‘modern poverty’ of today’s times. In this, a person’s income increases, but his expectations and desire to see others run at 10 times faster speed.
Those questions of the doctor, which shocked me
To overcome the mental confusion and depression of the person, Dr. Garg asked him very basic but important questions:
Question 1: How many times in the last one year have you said to yourself, ‘Where I am and whatever I have, is enough for me’?
answer: The man bowed his head and said, ‘Never.’
Question 2: For whom and why are you running day and night and earning so much money?
answer: The man honestly admitted that ‘he himself doesn’t even know.’ He is just running in this blind race because everyone around him is moving ahead.
Today’s man has become a money earning machine
Dr. Garg said that it became clear from these answers that the person was not financially weak, rather he had become poor in terms of real meaning of life, connection with family, satisfaction and mental peace. The doctor warned today’s young generation that when money becomes the only measure of every activity and happiness in your life, then you are no longer a human being, but merely a machine. Merely a huge amount of money deposited in a bank account can never compensate for the lack of purpose in life and mental loneliness.
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