LIFESTYLE - The Hidden Root For Modern Suffering

The other day, while walking through my factory floor, I noticed a young worker—just 21 years old—with surprisingly well-developed, muscular arms. I paused for a moment, genuinely taken aback. I’ve spent years lifting weights, training with discipline, counting reps and calories, all in pursuit of this kind of strength. Yet here was someone lean, humble, and seemingly effortless in his build—without ever stepping inside a gym.

Out of curiosity, I asked him if he worked out.

He smiled and replied, “No, sir. I’ve just been doing farming back in my village.”

That answer humbled me more than he could imagine.

Before joining us a year and a half ago, his life was structured by nature’s rhythm: waking at 5:00 AM, sleeping by 7:30 PM, working manually in the fields, walking after meals, eating freshly harvested food, and living without indulgence. His family—like many others in rural India—lives simply, yet healthily. They often live into their 80s and 90s without hospitals, medications, or modern supplements.

And it hit me: What we in cities pursue through expensive programs and fleeting resolutions is, for them, just… life.

We romanticize “clean eating,” struggle to wake early, try to "disconnect" through apps, and buy gadgets that promise health while making us more sedentary. In the name of convenience, we’ve outsourced everything—cooking, cleaning, walking, thinking—and paid for it with our health.

We’ve built lives around speed and comfort but lost our connection with the very basics of well-being. We earn more, but we also spend more—on pills, therapies, machines, and distractions trying to fix what we’ve unknowingly broken.

The deeper truth is hard to ignore: Our lifestyle is the root of modern suffering.

Physical illnesses. Mental exhaustion. Emotional imbalance. Even financial stress. All of it often traces back to how we live, what we consume, and what we value.

We don’t necessarily need more wealth—we need less artificial living.

Real change doesn’t begin with a new gadget, gym routine, or biohacking trend. It begins with a return to simplicity. To nature. To discipline. To the life our village brothers still live—a life that, ironically, modernity is desperately trying to rediscover.

Because in the end, a longer life is good—but a better life is far greater.