Indian spinner Varun Chakravarthy opened up about his relationship with money, revealing how he struggles with the guilt of spending on luxury items. He admitted that his typical middle-class mindset has made him acutely aware of money’s power.“I have had my struggle with money,” he said on Breakfast with Champions.“The only investments I knew were FDs (fixed deposits). My typical middle-class mindset. I know how powerful money is. If something is very powerful, you will have to use it to its full. potential.”
“What I feel is, rather than just changing my lifestyle with money, you can change someone else’s life — that’s more powerful.”The 34-year-old spinner shared a story of buying an expensive watch.“I have this guilty feeling that if I spend so much, if I have a watch worth Rs 30 lakh or 40 lakh, that amount of money can actually change someone’s life for two or three generations.
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“One watch I bought, which was around three lakhs or something, that itself just killed me from within. I know there are people who buy more expensive stuff.“See, the guys I have grown up with, some of them are still delivering food and doing all those things. I can’t even imagine wearing something like that and going to meet them. I just feel that I am disrespecting them. That’s my own thing; I am not judging anyone else.”
