If you think it’s easy to win millions or billions of dollars at any sort of game of chance, especially the state lottery, you’re right. It’s easy to win, but much easier to lose. Here’s a 2009 video showing the lottery win, plus an alternative life-style to the millionaire:

Did we win at the lottery? Not I — it’s not my sort of thing. But my Mom did, and lived for another 20 years without doing anything but watching daytime TV and playing an occasional table game.

I took none of the winnings, and it turns out, some 35 years later, we live a beautiful life that can’t be bought with money, a Work Life, and I wouldn’t trade it for all the money in the world.

Especially all the money in the world. What would I want with that? If you’ve never had a LOT of money, you’ll think I’m making this up, but I’ve known hundreds of millionaires and a few billionaires, and hundreds of very successful movie stars, and they were all miserable. Continue reading →