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Glasgow, Ky | Thread below about winning the lottery got me thinking about wealth and happiness. As I got older (I am 66 now) I realized that working to achieve financial goals was more enjoyable than the aftermath of achieving them. If someone would have told me that when I was younger I would have told them they were crazy.
The satisfaction of achieving goals yourself is absent when winning the lottery or other windfalls such as inheriting a huge sum of money. For example, someone who inherits a farm is sometimes looked at differently than a person who has earned it by the sweat of the brown. When you are treated differently, and not in a good way, it will eventually change you. You lose a little happiness in your life.
Question is would you really like to win, say $250 million in the lottery taking into consideration how drastically it would change your life and those around you? | |
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