Lucky

I saw a rather interesting documentary called "Lucky" on HBO last night. It's a documentary about several Power Ball Lottery winners and how their lives changed following their major fortune.

It is definitely a major source of envy when out of nowhere someone wins $25 to as much as $170 million by pure luck. And as much as people say lottery winners often end up miserable, this documentary showed that is not quite true. I learned that what determines their new fate is their character.

If they have good character and are generous, hard-working people to begin with, they spend/spent their money wisely; on the other hand, for those who became fearful of their new fortune, they squandered it out of anxiety with no planning for the future.

I kept wondering why people keep playing when the odds of winning are 1 in 185 million... hmmm perhaps we can keep dreaming that one day we will win the lottery and become $100 million dollars richer and do the things we want to do without ever worrying about money.