Who Is Truly Happy in Today’s World?

In the Mahabharata, a divine being once asked Yudhishthir, “Who is truly happy in this world?”

Yudhishthir replied: “A person who has no debt is truly happy.”

This question is even more important in today’s modern world: Who is really happy now?

Today, we live with modern technology, comfort, and convenience. Yet people remain sad, stressed, and frustrated. Why is this happening?

In my view, the One of the biggest reason is debt.

If we observe carefully, we will see that from the lower class to the rich class,most people are drowning in debts.

Earlier, people believed that only the poor suffered from loans. But now, more than the poor, the educated middle class and even the rich class are burdened with loans.

That is why these two classes often appear worried, depressed, and stressed, and sometimes even face health problems like heart attacks. A major reason behind this stress may be debt.

Two types of debt.

1. Essential Debt

Some loans are important, unavoidable:

1. Buying home
2. Starting Business
3. Education loan

These loans may feel uncomfortable, People repay them over time and grow in their career. For example:

1. A business loan helps someone expand their business.

2. An education loan allows a student to study and get a good job.

Such loans are stepping stones toward progress. There is nothing wrong with them.

2. Non-Essential Debt

These debts are unnecessary luxuries like Expensive Phone, luxury Cars, and over ambitious home that people do not need, and sometimes cannot afford, but still buy using loans.

A recent example: Thousands of people stood in long lines for two days to buy the latest iPhone. Most of them were lower-middle or middle-class people. They did not need the new iPhone, yet they bought it through EMIs.

Why do people fall into unnecessary debt? In my opinion, there are two main reasons:

1. Habit of Show-Off

This habit is most common among today’s youth. There is a blind race to own the latest phone, laptop, or gadget.

Young people want friends and relatives to be impressed.They feel pressure to buy new things, even if they must take loans and suffer later. As soon as a new gadget enters the market, their old phone or laptop suddenly feels “useless”.

Capitalism benefits from this mindset, and slowly, people sink deeper and deeper into debt.

2. Fake Social Prestige

This problem is common in middle class and upper-class families. Many wealthy people spend their whole life:

Buying more properties, expanding their business, collecting more and more assets.

Tolstoy explains this perfectly in his story “How Much Land Does a Man Need?”

In the story: A man is given a chance to take as much land as he can cover on foot in one day. The only condition: he must return to the same starting point before sunset.

At first, he gathers a little bit of land.Then he thinks, “Let me take more.”His greed grows: “Just a little more… such a chance won’t come again.”

He runs farther and farther, collecting huge land.

But suddenly, he sees the sun setting.He runs back as fast as he can.He reaches the starting point exhausted, collapses, and dies on the spot.

In the end, he needs only six feet of land — his grave.

In today’s society. People want to be richer than others. firstly want become the most successful in their city, then in their country, then in the whole world.

But this race never ends. It brings nothing except stress, competition, and unhappiness —until finally, life ends.

Conclusion: Who Is Truly Happy?

In the end, Yudhishthir was right —true happiness belongs to the person who is not drowning in debt.

In the end, Yudhishthir was right —
true happiness belongs to the person who is not drowning in debt.

In the end, Yudhishthir was right —
true happiness belongs to the person who is not drowning in debt.

Real wealth is: peace of mind, freedom from debt, and the ability to live life without influence from society expectations.