Shakespeare says: "To have what we would have, we speak not what we mean"

The mega millions lotto is high( 640M to be exact ) and frankly, I love when these days happen.  You hear the buzz! All the talk about what people would do with 640M... I think winning that kind of money, 1/2 that money, 1/4 of that money, while very awesome, would be freakin' frightening.

Sure, you can quit your job. You can shop your ass off. You can do whatever the hell you want to do. You can travel all over the world.  Bentley? check. Mansion? check. Hair did every 4 weeks? check. Trip to Tahiti, Portugal, Maui? check. 500 cats cuddling in your big ass cat sanctuary? check. (allergies. check.)

But then what? Imagine coming to the ultimate conclusion that you have it all.  The next step is then to ask "what do you have to give."  You'd have to be the person who finds out what they truly love to do--and then do it-- really do it. 640M means get up off your ass and make a difference, doesn't it? Do any of us know what would really rock our boat? What would really make us feel like we were leaving a legacy? What do you love, really love, to do?

I think I'd start a humongous animal shelter, I think I'd give 10,000 needy people 10,000 dollars each (look how cheap i am). I think I'd go back to school, major in nutrition and then become a vegan nutritionist.  I think I'd do a lot of shit, but how does one go about identifying the one thing that they really love to do?    And would that be enough. Would it simultaneously self-satisfy and serve a greater purpose....

This is why we need the lottery. We need to exercise creative scenarios like this to discover who we are, ask questions, deep dive, rationalize and re-create.  It's emotional, intense, and potentially character defining:  for about 2 minutes, we can be infinitely generous.  It's exciting, it's unthinkable.  For 2 minutes, we can be infinitely greedy. It's self-serving, it's excessive, it's maybe a bit wicked.  We aren't sharing those thoughts though, huh. Hence the blog title.

Hmm, could one argue that maybe not winning the lottery is, in fact, the lucky part of it all for some of us?