India, Aug. 24 -- A Bengaluru techie earning Rs.1.8 lakh a month recently shared how a sudden family medical emergency made him realise that a high salary did not necessarily translate into financial security.

In a Reddit post titled "I was living like a fake rich techie making Rs.1.8L/month, until an ICU emergency exposed how broke I actually was", the user said that two years ago, he believed he was "crushing it" financially. He lived in a gated society in Bengaluru and invested Rs.80,000 every month through systematic investment plans (SIPs).

However, the techie said that things changed when his father suddenly collapsed and was admitted to an ICU. "The hospital demanded a Rs.2.5L deposit upfront for the ICU," he wrote.

He said that...