Lottery winners’ good luck can go bad fast - Yahoo! News
This story gets me somehow. I always kinda assumed IF we were to win a number of pleasant things would happen like work (or the absence of it), responsibilities (or their absence), the life of Riley (or some other character more likely). But no. People just being people are beset by friends, enemies, hatred, jealousy. I wonder how people that inherit vast sums handle it. Its kinda sad actually because the very thing we equate with success in our vested economy often is the cause of our ultimate undoing. Winning $300 million in some powerball or mega millions is not a clear path to ecstasy or even cow-like contentment.
Too many things can happen, do happen, or don’t. The lesson I see in all this is that simply winning some sum of money does not equate to happiness or will it suddenly take away the things that are challenges now. At the most it may postpone them until some later date.
But… I still buy Lotto and Mega Million tickets because I believe we would handle it better, be more adept, and also understand the value at both a monetary and philosophical level. Who knows??
The winning of hundreds of millions could seriously jeopardize any set of values and reveal baser instincts. Especially in others unfortunately.
