11/29/12
I heard today that two people won the $580 million dollar PowerBall Pick yesterday. I wasn’t one of them. Am I disappointed? Of course I am, just as are 316,999,998 other people this morning who didn’t win. I should have known better with the odds of winning at 175 million to one,but I had the same odds as the other two ticket holders who did win. It is a foolish hope that drives us to chance those amazing odds, however the $2.00 chance to make $580 million can’t be underestimated. It wasn’t by the two lucky people who did win.
The problem with losing the lotto isn’t the waste of the $2.00 ticket price. The problem is the disappointment of facing the fact, that it was a temporary illusion of winning that seemed so real. If you read my last post from yesterday $500,000,000 Fever, I was in a different frame of mind, clouded by the grand illusion of winning, but it wasn’t the money that motivated me to buy the ticket, it was the chance at freedom that inspired me. Freedom from all financial worry for the rest of my life. That was what really motivated so many millions of people like myself.
I have to wonder what those two lucky lotto winners are thinking right now or if they are thinking at all, or asleep and don’t know they won yet. It’s hard to imagine someone waking up today and realizing they are 200 million dollars richer. If they are awake, and know they won I would think they are in total disbelief at this moment. The thought occurred to me that what if I’m still asleep? Maybe I won but I am in complete denial. Maybe I am still in the great 500 million dollar illusion, and depended on the media this morning to announce who won. The media is an illusion, so it is more than possible for them to miss state the winning numbers so that only two people won and not everyone. The media is the marketer of the great illusion.
If every ticket holder won, their individual winnings would amount to the price of their ticket. We would win the cost of our ticket price and have bought one day to imagine we had won $580 million dollars. Those of us who did have a great day imagining our winning great wealth, and found out today that we didn’t win, we are still all better off for the experience. It has afforded us for one day to reach beyond our present into the uncertain future with our hopes and dreams, and may have made us more committed to succeed at whatever we undertake.
L.A. Steel
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