Debt-free! Showing off or showing the way?

Everyone who does the 9-step program Your Money or Your Life and reaches their “debt crossover point” – retiring their last penny of debt including mortgage – experiences a freedom beyond description. A lightness of being. A release as the shackles come off and they realize their future is theirs, not the bank’s.

The question is: does celebrating this life passage with your friends (as you would a wedding or graduation) seem like gloating when everyone else is entangled in webs of debt