As the big lottery drawing approaches, depending on when you read this story, I'm either waiting with slim hope of winning or I’ve actually won the 1.3 billion lottery. Most likely, NOT and some other lucky sap did!
It's funny how people
go bat shit crazy when the lottery jackpot reaches an enormous amount.
This jackpot is actually a record breaking amount and has everyone lining up for
a chance to win.
I rarely gamble or buy pull tabs, scratch offs and lottery tickets. The song "If
I didn't have bad luck, I'd have no luck at all," is my gambling theme
song. I can count on one hand, the number of times I've won when
gambling. I learned a long time ago it's not worth doling out my budgeted
amount of cash when I know I won't be rewarded.
However, I have to
say, the buzz over this big billion dollar lottery is enticing me to, at least, buy one ticket. Secretly, I’m thinking I just might be that person.
You know the one; the
one that rarely or never buys lottery tickets and then goes to buy a gallon of
milk and says "oh what the hell just
throw in a lottery ticket too." Then luck strikes and that's the ONE that wins!!
Many of us dream
about what we'd do if we won the BIG
jackpot. Buy a new house, travel the world, pay off bills, take care of our
loved ones and make charitable donations (I would anyway).
As I sit here this
Sunday morning drinking coffee in my 25 year-old sweatshirt and wearing no bra, I
have to wonder how would that much money change me; change my easy-going Sunday
mornings going forward?