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I must resonate Sass's concern about how it can change you. Ultimately the responsibility of handling that much money without the financial know hows will just ruin you.
And of course, who can FORGET about those family members/friends/who have you demanding your payout to them. THIS usually the reason why everyone go pretty broke real fast. Its not the stupidity that gets them, but the TRYING TO BE A GOOD PERSON while they're at it is what gets them. Donating to an useless charity would be another good example. Disclaimer: Not all charities are useless but their motivations and non-transparency about funds is pretty questionable.
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Yeah, I think you hit the nail right on the dot there. If I ever won the lottery I'd make
damn sure no one knew about it,
especially my folks. It's not that I
want to be Scrooge McBitterson by choice, but my sister and I have both already carried our share of both our parents' load of "I'm old and you need to take care of me" bullshit in our early 20's. If either of us won the lottery we'll both just be dealing with a lifetime of leechers coming to us to be their problem solvers.
I guess that's the most realistic problem I'd have with the lottery; I wouldn't lose sight or who I am or what I do for a living, but I'd lose my sensibility to solve my own problems without money and inherit a boatload of problems just based on how needy my family are.
Although if I had to dream, it would be nice paying off all of my debts and start giving back to a community. And then traveling around the world. Maybe going to some countries
just to learn the language. Travel through all the rural areas of Japan, backpacking from village to village in the countryside wandering through treasure trove of deliciousness. At some point though, I feel like Edmond Norton's character in
The Italian Job; I'm not creative enough to know what to do with my own money or dream of what I really want... People like that (me) are better off without the money. I can discover a much more humbler journey through life in that sense.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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