Do you think winning a lottery is a blessing or … a curse? Ok, let’s give it one more possibility, it can be neither. It can be neutral. But most often it is not. I remember reading my first article about lottery winners in my country (Lithuania). There were stories of ten people who won pretty big amounts. I was shocked to find out that for nine people out of the ten the winning became a curse. One lady managed to cope with a windfall, the rest stories were pitiful: some lost it all very fast, some got divorced, some started drinking and using drugs, a few got killed and maybe something else. I cannot remember all the details now.
At the time I thought that the phenomena was local, but was surprised later than the same was true about people who won lotteries in England and United States and in other (civilized countries). Eventually I found out that people are just people and they are people everywhere. And human weakness to get a lot of money fast is inherent for us all. And that is the problem with the concept of making money fast. A lot of money fast most often breaks people because they are not prepared for it.
When a person is trying to do business and accumulates wealth over a period of time, he/she learns how to deal with capital. So, when he/she finally starts making millions or even more, these huge amounts of money does not break the person. He is ready to accept it and not start doing some crazy stuff. It requires patience, stamina, desire, persistence to do business, make money slowly, and start again after a failure until you reach what you want in terms of financial prosperity.
A lot of people do not feel they want to pay the price or they do not believe that they ever going to see success. However, they still want to be rich. Therefore, they choose lottery playing. It is legal, does not cost much and if you win much you can go after your dreams the next day. My wife’s sister lives in New York and she told me how her colleagues at work tell her that if they win the lottery this weekend, they will not show up at work next week.
So many of us do what we don’t like and never really pursue what we desire. I really think it is the price of going after our dreams that scares us most. And most of us are too lazy and get stuck in our comfort zones. We don’t get what we want, but we still can bear what we have. In order not to lose what we have we decide not to risk anything, except maybe buying a lottery ticket for a few bucks or whatever it costs. I believe we need to sit down, think what we want, make a plan how to achieve it and go for it. It might take a long time to achieve, but what we will get will be ours and it won’t break us. So, is lottery winning a blessing or a …?
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