If you won the lottery...

...and you became like a mega millionaire , or even just a millionaire, or maybe you just won a share of the prize fund like a half a mil or something.

How would you deal with that in your conscience?

Obviously the first thing you would think was hey great I'm rich! But then you would start to feel guilty about the fact that you have loads of money while loads of folk have next to nothing.

I know this because I think about what it would feel like to be a millionaire and the very contemplatory thought of it makes me feel guilty-ish.

So then I try to justifiy my serendipitously found greed by imagining how I would use my wealth to help others around me, whilst still retaining enough for myself to maintain a life filled with fruit and mirth.

Let us imagine that I won 1 million in a lucky dip and I gave half a million to poor people, or just my close friends and family. I would then still be left with half a million which is still a heck a lot more than most people would have. So what then should I give even more, maybe another quarter or 3/8ths or what?

Where would I stop before I myself had no more than my next door neighbour and then I was back to square one?

Jesus him very self was once faced with this very same dilemma, only back then in jerusalem before money was invented he didn't have a million pounds but some fish and a loaf of bread, whom he shared between thousands of hungry people.

Apparently everyone enjoyed this meal of what would I imagine have been a tiny crumb of bread and bit of scraggy left over fish flesh.

I can't for the life of me imagine myself being content with that, because I'm a hungry bastard at the best of times.

But it is just a moral story that was written some time ago to make us all aware of the true nature of generosity and gratefulness.

What would YOU do if you won the lottery?

 

NOTHING.!!....I Would Tell Not One Single Person, But As The Following

Months Ensued, I Would Slowly Buy Some Of The Things I Have Wanted

All My Life....

I Doubt I Would Give Any To Charity, Because There Is No Confidance

Clause They Understand, And As Soon As One Of Their Employees Left,

The Next Day My Phone Would Ring Off The Hook, With Other Charities

Wanting Money.

This Is Where So Many People Who Win Money Fail, They Get So Excited

In The Heat Of The Moment, They Tell Neighbours, Friends, Family, etc

Then Wonder A Few Months Later Why The Whole Happy Event Went

Bellie Up, And They Have To Move Interstate To Get Some Peace And

Quiet....



Cheers Glen.

 

I would take a small amount and just play at life a little.

The bulk of it I would invest for a year. Then decide what I wanted to do.

Most people who win a lottery end up broke as they do not handle the funds properly.

 

I would pay to have 20 oil tankers stuffed full of crates of cats sent to Glen's house, as well as 20 Airbus A380s full of cats in crates dropped with parachutes over his house. And a webcam to document the following weeks.

 

Tis 5-16pm Here, Supermarket Closes At Midnight, Just Enough Time To

Drive My Ute Into Town*carries a ton* A Few Times, And Stock Up With Cat Food....

Something Tells Me I'm Going To Need It....



Cheers Glen.

 

I'd use the money to buy my way to the top of The Church of Scientology then convince the likes of John Travolta and Tom Cruise that L Ron Hubbard came to me in a dream and told me he wants them to fly a couple passenger jets into Mecca at the height of the Harge

"Tower, this is Ghost Rider requesting a flyby.
That's a negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full"

 

Buy a lot of private property somewhere in the woods so i wouldn't have a neighbor for miles.

 

First of all, I wouldn't feel guilty.
I'd move back to my home city and get an education.

Second of all

da fuck?
The idea of currency is a lot older than 2000 years.

 

I wouldn't tell anyone except my hitmen

 

Honestly, what I was doing for the next year wouldn't be any different.

 

i would take my mom and sister to europe, then I would take my close friends on an outdoor adventure, perhaps an african safari or a trip to machu picchu. then I would buy a farm, start a small commune, and go to school until I obtain my PH.D

 

Assuming I wouldn't self-destruct upon receipt of a sum I have not been cultured to be custodian of...

Hold my job for a while and not tell a soul apart from immediate family members and one close friend and swear them all to secrecy... then after putting enough away to modestly retire on and offer some assistance with one very dear friend's monetary matters, plan out a year's vacation- get a comfortable bit of transportation the drive cross country- probably end up in California and visit my sister who has relocated there... probably invite along the aforementioned friend who hit it off with sis quite well.

Though the whole phenomenon would be quite bewildering to me as I am not in the habit of purchasing lottery tickets... perhaps one day on a whim I'll revisit that.

 

i think i did this some years ago. calculated the money I had earned in my lifetime, and if I hadn't spent any of it. I would of been 1/2 way to a millionaire when I was 30 or something like that... The same time I did this a friend and I calculated our parents and were like damn millionaires and where did the money all go?..

 

come to think of it.... i've never bought a lottery ticket

maybe if i eat mc donalds i can win 2million in prizes

uke:

 

no purchase necessary... what the hell does that really mean anyways?

 

if people took it seriously that monopoly giant would be out of business :2thumbsup:

 

I'd Rather Be A Pauper, But Still Have Good Health....



Cheers Glen.

 

i'd buy an ipad, then just hand money out to anyone, especially the the homeless. i just don't believe in holding money like that.

 

I read this story not long ago about a millionaire hoarder, that was actually buying illegal drugs, not to use but to collect.. at one time he was a compulsive thief and somehow hit the lotto. then collected pounds of marijuana, hundreds of different pills .. ect, I cant seem to find it though..

 

^^didnt even think about that. i'd definitely buy an ass load of drugs.