I think it’s sort of funny, how often one might think that money can make things so much better… don’t get me wrong, we all keep a mental list of what we would do if we suddenly had a plethora of cash on hand!
In truth, the first thing that popped into my head when I read the prompt, was how nice it would be to have a hot shower… not in a hotel or high-rise apartment, mind you, but right here inside my little RV. Sure, I can come up with many different ways to bless the whole of the earth with my newly won riches, but if I don’t feel safe, secure, and clean within the very place I reside… what good is any of it?
It’s like when the Three Amigos are laying in bed, the night before they were supposed to defeat El Guapo, thinking they were just putting on a show for money, one asks the other two what they were going to spend their earnings on after they got home. Dusty rattled off something about a new car, Lucky mentioned some other expensive dreamy item, and then Ned chimed in that he wanted to help all the less fortunate… both the other two promptly chime in that they were gonna do that too! We all like to make suggestions or promises about things like money or good will towards fellow man, when we are feeling good about things. Though the move was ridiculous, in nature, by the end of the story the Three Amigos left all the money, never actually accepting payment… maybe they found out that the journey was much more important than the money, who knows.
I’d like to think that I could offer anything within my means to help my fellow man, in whatever situation I find myself in, with or without winning a lottery. I suspect that a great many of you feel the same way, so however we choose to answer the prompt today is neither here nor there.
What would be very telling is if the question were to be answered in the form of
“What do you think others would expect you to do, if you won the lottery?”
Go ahead, give it a try… see if you can guess what I might spend the money on, were I the one winning the lottery!
Here are three choices of cookies to motivate you, this might give you better odds at guessing correctly…
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