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Its a very rare occasion I buy a lottery ticket. And there is a good reason too.
I'm an optimist... some would say incurably so. I'd have to agree.
On the handful of occasions I've held a ticket (most often because someone gave me one) I start to believe I may just win. It changes my thinking. I start to imagine what it would be like to have all that money... and imagine all the things we could accomplish with it. Its pretty exciting really.
It starts to distract me from the work at hand, things currently on my list. No need to think about them for I'm going to be rich! Real rich for I have the winning ticket!
But then the draw date comes by and my lucky number which I really BELIEVED would be drawn isn't. Sadly it was all for nothing.
I have to pick up the pieces of things left undone on account of my optimistic distraction and start over. I'd have been better off and further towards my dream if I had never owned a ticket.
I'll always remain an over the top optimist... but instead of playing the lottery I'll think of and work towards things I KNOW I can make happen. I'll work towards my dreams one small step at a time and think of the day we manage to make that project a reality.
I believe in reality and things possible.
Thinking positive thoughts in Yarrow...
-grampa dan
[ June 02, 2007, 09:23 PM: Message edited by: Dan Sawatzky ]
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I haven't purchased a lottery ticket in 15 years. I see poor folks standing in line all the time waiting to put their money down on a hope and a prayer and I wanna say "Why don't you take that money and invest it in YOURSELF instead?" But I just keep my big mouth shut, because I think they'd just look at me cross-eyed anyways.
Positive thinking and positive hoping,...two different things?
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We buy lottery tickets regularly. Hell, we even won enough to replace the roof on the house a few years back (came at just the right time!)
If we hadn't bought them all along we probably would have saved enough money to do the roof anyway. But you know what it's like..that $10/week savings would have disappeared anyway on something else.
Anyone who has quit smoking can probably attest to that fact of life.
I agree with Mark, though, if you can't really afford to gamble...DON'T
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quote:Originally posted by Mark Tucker: I see poor folks standing in line all the time waiting to put their money down on a hope and a prayer and I wanna say "Why don't you take that money and invest it in YOURSELF instead?" But I just keep my big mouth shut, because I think they'd just look at me cross-eyed anyways.
I sometimes take a peek in people's shopping carts and they can't be too poor if they still find the money to drink their sorrows away with a case of beer every week, or every day as the case may be, or inhale $4-$8 a day worth of cigarettes. They'd feel like they hit the lotto if they'd give up those habits costing 'em $100-$400 every month.
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Mike Pipes stickerpimp.com Lake Havasu, AZ mike@stickerpimp.com Posts: 8746 | From: Lake Havasu, AZ USA | Registered: Jun 2000
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Two lessons, have you ever read true stories of most winners? They wind up bankrupt, have to move because everyone wants them to share the wealth and friends and relatives are envious. The other thing is that casino owners never gamble, they know better, the odds are so great that your chances of winning are one in millions. Forget about it!
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When the Massachusetts "Big Money Game" began in the 70's, my dad bought two tickets. He kept one for himself and gave the other to our next door neighbor, a postman who had 5 kids and another one on the way and they were living in a small home.
Don's ticket hit for the full $50,000 grand prize.
Don offered to split the winnings with my father, but Dad suggested he use the whole thing to get a bigger house for his family and wouldn't accept any money. A few weeks later, Don and his family bought a HUGE 6 bedroom house next to a playground and the high school football field. (50K went a LOOOOONG way back then)
Dad's always looked back on that event and never regretted that decision. Not only did they get the house, but it freed up their finances so most of his kids went on to college and have had very successful careers.
Despite some tough financial times and life's trials since then, he's always been optimistic and truly believed that if you stuck to your goals and worked hard, you would eventually win in the end.
He always believed that "what comes around goes around" and now, 30+ years later, knows he wouldn't have changed a thing...as he heads out every morning, enjoying his retirement, to the golf course.
There's more to win in life than money. Thanks for the example, Dad. Rapid
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