I went for a walk feeling quite hungry craving some nasty 7/11 chicken at night, the hunger pains get better.. I'm on a 2 meal a day diet and it's great to see results in regards to physical appearance. As I'm waiting in line a couple of drunk people come into the store acting obnoxious, geez why is it only drunk people have the most fun around sober people? 
The man offered to buy me a pack of smokes, to which I declined (I don't smoke and absolutely hate the smell of it) but he kept insisting to buy me something. He came up with the idea of gifting me a lottery ticket. Trying to figure out why a random stranger is so set on being kind, perhaps he won big at the casino? All of them are closed due to the Chinese Flu, maybe an affluent business man? Or someone that finds me attractive? Heck who knows, let's just go on with it... blame the booze. Ok... I guess, after scratching the first one you could guess what happened, of course a losing ticket, dreams of yachts, models, bottles and red Ferrari's out the window! Although again this intoxicated person wanted to buy another so Mr Drunk Man left me a ticket for the lotto 649, grand prize.......
$17,000,000
It was a funny feeling holding up a potential winner, but I'll need to wait until tomorrow to find out. As a thought experiment I visualized and dreamed of what I'd do with the cash... And then calculated how many sales in my own business needs to get that amount there is a thread posted on here about what would you do with XXXX amount of money after you've bought all the cars, jets, mansions and other nonsense. So actually I came up with this idea in my head, I'd honestly probably just buy a house up in a secluded area, isolate myself from the world and spend my days surfing, snowboarding and lounge around in my pool.
But then what? After a few years wouldn't it all just get boring? People tend to get used to the luxuries that they have, even a shiny red Ferrari and private jet would eventually become ''the new normal.'' I'm probably one of the rare few people on this earth that has experienced money and poverty. I've been homeless and have literally starved on the streets, and now am in a big million dollar house in Vancouver (just renting a room) with a full belly all the time, really you should see my belly!
It seems to be a common theme with the rich, but if you really think long and hard about it... maybe those silly rich people are right. While money is a great tool, money itself can't really buy happiness, call me a douche, personally it's quite entertaining for me to read about celebrity's with depression (which most of the time imo is self inflicted from drugs and alcohol) I use to read those headlines all the time while sleeping outside on a cold sidewalk in the middle of winter and was always happy to know even in a crappy situation like mine they feel worse than me.
So back to the 17 million, what is there to do that you couldn't do now? While there are alot of expensive hobbies, you don't exactly need millions of dollars to enjoy certain ones, snowboarding a season i.e would be roughly a few thousand dollars, boating, jetsking, paragliding, traveling to various countries all could be under the $10k mark. Which is chump change right? Isn't it kind of funny how some of the most important things can't be bought? True love, friends, health and youth? Would you rather be a 70 year old billionaire, or a 20 year old broke bum?
Hope you enjoyed the rant, enjoy your time on earth, some of the happiest moments of mine were usually involving fun times with friends.... and that's something that can't really be bought.
The man offered to buy me a pack of smokes, to which I declined (I don't smoke and absolutely hate the smell of it) but he kept insisting to buy me something. He came up with the idea of gifting me a lottery ticket. Trying to figure out why a random stranger is so set on being kind, perhaps he won big at the casino? All of them are closed due to the Chinese Flu, maybe an affluent business man? Or someone that finds me attractive? Heck who knows, let's just go on with it... blame the booze. Ok... I guess, after scratching the first one you could guess what happened, of course a losing ticket, dreams of yachts, models, bottles and red Ferrari's out the window! Although again this intoxicated person wanted to buy another so Mr Drunk Man left me a ticket for the lotto 649, grand prize.......
$17,000,000
It was a funny feeling holding up a potential winner, but I'll need to wait until tomorrow to find out. As a thought experiment I visualized and dreamed of what I'd do with the cash... And then calculated how many sales in my own business needs to get that amount
there is a thread posted on here about what would you do with XXXX amount of money after you've bought all the cars, jets, mansions and other nonsense. So actually I came up with this idea in my head, I'd honestly probably just buy a house up in a secluded area, isolate myself from the world and spend my days surfing, snowboarding and lounge around in my pool.But then what? After a few years wouldn't it all just get boring? People tend to get used to the luxuries that they have, even a shiny red Ferrari and private jet would eventually become ''the new normal.'' I'm probably one of the rare few people on this earth that has experienced money and poverty. I've been homeless and have literally starved on the streets, and now am in a big million dollar house in Vancouver (just renting a room) with a full belly all the time, really you should see my belly!
It seems to be a common theme with the rich, but if you really think long and hard about it... maybe those silly rich people are right. While money is a great tool, money itself can't really buy happiness, call me a douche, personally it's quite entertaining for me to read about celebrity's with depression (which most of the time imo is self inflicted from drugs and alcohol) I use to read those headlines all the time while sleeping outside on a cold sidewalk in the middle of winter and was always happy to know even in a crappy situation like mine they feel worse than me.
So back to the 17 million, what is there to do that you couldn't do now? While there are alot of expensive hobbies, you don't exactly need millions of dollars to enjoy certain ones, snowboarding a season i.e would be roughly a few thousand dollars, boating, jetsking, paragliding, traveling to various countries all could be under the $10k mark. Which is chump change right? Isn't it kind of funny how some of the most important things can't be bought? True love, friends, health and youth? Would you rather be a 70 year old billionaire, or a 20 year old broke bum?
Hope you enjoyed the rant, enjoy your time on earth, some of the happiest moments of mine were usually involving fun times with friends.... and that's something that can't really be bought.
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