How Lucky are Lotto Winners?
Written by Post on May 15th, 2009 in Arts & Entertainment.
If you happen to be a lotto winner your life is never going to be the same again. Not only your life, but your friends’ and relatives’ lives will also change, and the change may not be very pleasant. Incredible things have happened to people who have suddenly attained the status of being a lotto winner.
Whether you happened to draw the winning numbers yourself or used the windows lotto pro software, the fact is that you will be richer by tens of millions of pounds or euros, and things will start to change almost immediately.
Mark Gardiner won a record prize of £ 11 million and believed that all his problems were a thing of the past. However, though his present problems vanished, Mark found himself with new ones that he was not capable of or trained to handling. With his business partner, friend Paul Maddison, Mark won the jackpot. They had record winngs of £ 22 million and Mark got his share of £ 11 million. Paul shunned the limelight; he retreated into the background while Mark decided to have some fun.
Before he could comprehend it, Mark blew half of his winnings. As he bought expensive cars and houses, gave to friends and relatives, married and then divorced, his problems never seemed to end. His family disowned him as if he had committed a crime. Finally he regained his bearings and is now wiser and remarried to his first wife, a childhood sweetheart whom he had divorced when he was penniless.
However, not every story is as heart breaking as the one mentioned above. There have been too many people to count who have made good on their fortune and remained grounded. Ianthe Fullagar, a student, won an amazing £ 7,055,142. After the usual screaming in disbelief she settled down and called her family, and her boyfriend, and shared the news with them. Ianthe intends to share her new found wealth with her near ones and to continue to pursue a law degree. A new car was the only new thing she planned to purchase.
An anonymous winner, without batting an eye, donated all his $3 million winnings to his church. The church has decided to not only expand its facilities to accommodate the growing congregation, but to also donate some of the money to charities.
A Lotto Winner Can Do A lot Good
The point is, as a lotto winner you find yourself in the enviable position to do a lot of good for yourself and for those around you. Your community stands to benefit too, if you maintain a cool head and spend the money wisely.
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