Middle-class People’s life is like a bowl of Spaghetti with somewhat exactly the same ingredients, long, thin, round noodles. Just like unfulfilled fantasy, empty Pocket, compulsion, abandonment, and ménage are some of the spices to make his life more thrilling with ups and downs. From the first cry to the last ride, one thing is common and that’s striving for success.

Once Bill Gates said, “If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake” But what if I was born in the middle of it? What should I do then? There is no theory about it. The common middle-class man’s life is like a vibrant colour spectrum, and sometimes completely black & white. Sometimes happy, sometimes moderate, sometimes disconsolate. Very uncertain.

Who Are Middle-class People?

According to economics: A Middle class is a class of people who come in a hierarchy between the low working class and the upper working class. They could be professionals, civil servants, Daily wage earners, etc. Every country has a different way to measure Middle-Class people. Karl Marx referred to the Middle class as small business owners where capitalisms operate, as opposed to the working class he termed as Proletariat.

Signs That You’ve Made It To The Middle-Class

1. Financial Instability

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Family discussing their day at the dinner table
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One of the most common talks that I’ve always seen is related to savings, from where earnings will come? Dad shares his day, Mother discusses household work, and children like us just keep listening to them. Most of the children have to abandon their fantasies, their dewy eyes, and broken hearts, make every parent regretful. Every parent wants to fulfil the dreams of their little ones, and for that, they are always ready to sacrifice their own dreams. And I think this is as the red chilly spice of a common man’s life.

2. Vacations

It has some mixed emotions, in vacations often go to Nani’s house (my maternal Grandmother’s home) and sometimes a short road trip with my father and sometimes spend all the holidays playing gully cricket. But many a time, the plan got called off because Dad didn’t get leave from his office.

When we on to higher secondary school, the coaching Institute became our vacation point, a heavy syllabus to cover with loads of homework, ruined our felicity.

3. Dwelling

250 square feet house (or more), 2 bedrooms one for the guest, one for pooja Ghar (worshipped room), a small kitchen, and a common bathroom. This is the tour of a common man’s house. If more than 1 guest arrives then one room turns into a hall where all family has to adjust themselves. It seems to reconcile transiently but the moment turns to be ecstatic.

4. Adjustment

Fine-tuning in education, food, and desires is a conventional practice for us. We know how to save, reconcile, and regenerate. Saving a single penny for future purposes is our daily routine. In Economics according to the Keynesian theory of income determination Saving is Equal to Investment. But our theory is quite the opposite of Keynesian. We save so that we can have our basic needs, most of the savings are spent in marriages.

In India, we worship the daughter as a Laxmi(god of wealth) but ironically after the marriage of the daughter the whole saving is used and the father comes into debt. All thanks to ostentatious culture. We do a job along with our college to reduce the burden on our parents.

Yesterday, I was at an ATM and the view astounded me, the security guard was giving his examination along with his duty very honestly.

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The security guard was giving an examination along with his duty at the ATM.

4. Education

Education is the powerful weapon which you can use to change the world

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This is so true Education makes our standard and helps in earning but it also needs some investment before. Our education has so many loopholes. Low-quality systems and infrastructure make it hard to get schooling from government schools so to keep up with the standard and due to societal pressure, the parents have to send their children to private institutions for better guidance.

But half of our parents’ income went off by paying tuition fees because of such a large amount of private institutions. And we are still out of work because of fewer jobs and tough competition. Every parent wants to make his child an IITian, MBBS, or Scientist and for that, there are 35% of students are depressed every year.

5. Friends

Middle-class people have a small friend circle but are very ardent towards their friends. In every house function, they always reached before the commencement of it to reduce the burden of his friend.

Apart from that, we are also very close to our first purchases from our father’s first salary scooter to mom’s first saree. And our collection of coins. My father still has an OLD BAJAJ SCOOTER which is kept in our garage safely, and my grandpa’s bullock cart which was his means of transportation at their epoch. Although these things are not used but kept as a memory, make us nostalgic.

6. Struggle

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Frustrated man after so many responsibilities. What do you think Men Never Cry?
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From the first cry to the last ride a middle class acquainted with all the patterns of emotions. Anger, anxiety, frustration to appreciation, adoration, and excitement, and then again swaying back to the bottom, are all daily routines.

We always persist in the next chapter after failure i.e., Success. Sometimes thirst for expansionism turns you askew like Harshad Mehta. Being so capable and genius the whole system and cartel of rich people let him down just because he comes from a middle-class family and was rising on his own. He made mistakes and was a defaulter but you can’t deny that he was a genius too.

Final Thoughts

Middle-class families are the most undervalued people, government provide benefits to white collars and the poor as well by the public distribution system. It’s the middle class that has no progress. It’s like we don’t even exist in the government’s eyes.

The common man earns definitely good but expenses squeeze all his income. High taxes, tuition fees, household items, functions, etc. and carrying burden throughout his life.

He is in a trap, in the striving for success many a time he defaults to the system. His life is relatable to climbing, imagine you want to climb up the hill but stones, weather, burdens, and competitors not letting you reach. You can’t go back because it can throw you into the chasm. The same is the life of the Middle class, better to be called a hanging loop.

And that’s all, how it is like being middle-class.

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