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12/18/2008 Skew Good afternoon all, I hope you are in the spirits of the holidays and
that you are enjoying this hectic time of the season. To accompany my
Scrooge like attitude I have been dutifully handing out to all I want
to add insult to injury in the form of a Scrooge like writing as well.
Now let me first say that this is the first year I have EVER had an
even remotely Scrooge like attitude or behavior in the slightest. For
the most part the Holiday season makes me chipper, giddy, and
remarkably un-easy to live with due to the constant ambiguous humming
of endless Christmas carols. Unfortunately this year I have had a few
circumstances that haven't settled well with me and yet another has
been thrown in my face. So with no further adieu. One of my friends recently won the lottery! That's right he won the lottery, well not the entire lottery but just a scratch off ticket worth a few hundred bucks but still that's more than he had before he won the lottery. So his winning the lottery started my thinking, what would you do with a few hundred bucks? I mean sure if you win the millions your list starts off rather easy, pay off all debt, purchase those items you need for the family, and the list continues but what if it was only a few hundred dollars? So I started asking people exactly what would you do with this money if you won it today? My answers varied but with every response I asked a second question, “no really what would you really end up purchasing with the money?” I asked this second question because I feel we all, sometimes greater or fewer depending on the person, have a skewed perception of reality sometimes. Most said they would 'pay this' or 'get this item for their child' or 'put it towards a trip of some sort' but after asking the second question those answers turned to 'burning it on clothes for myself' or 'drinking it away with a party' or even worse 'purchase more lottery tickets.' Now I have said all of this to finally get around to saying this, we all have priorities. Those priorities will generally dictate where our money goes. Now excluding getting the bills paid in a timely fashion the remainder of our money generally goes toward the place that is nearest and dearest to our heart. For most people they can only afford those things that they truly want to afford. If they want to afford it then it will become possible, if they don't then magically they do not have enough money. They can afford a car they wanted, the gun the wanted, the snowboarding trip they wanted, the special gifts for friends but they couldn't afford college tuition, that special something that special someone, a house, or dinner with the friends. We all spend our money in different areas but we all spend our money in places that our heart resides. Another scenario with the same concept but different twist would go like this. Lets say our friend gets $300 from this lottery winning and without being asked spends it on whatever was nearest and dearest to their heart and blows every dime of it. In fact they blow it in whatever fashion they so please and it just so happens that this fashion is on fashion and it is all spent on clothes minus a few bucks here and there for gas and ice cream . A few weeks later they hit the jackpot again and win another $300 and again they spend all of it on the exact same thing they did last time. Now lets say we ask our lucky friend 'hey, you've won the lottery twice what are you going to do with the money if you win it again?' and their response it 'oh man I think I'm going to help you buy this or that because I just love helping you.' ...... Now this seems a bit strange because knowing what they did with their earnings in the past surely is not indicative of what they are saying will happen in the future. Is it our skewed perception of reality or theirs? Do they really have intentions of helping me or are they just misperceive what will actually happen to the money? I have found that intentions of speculations generally error their greatest when scenarios are missed. It just so happens that our lucky friend never won the lottery again and thus never helped us similar to the way she wanted to come home and get frisky with me but I was asleep. Never before had she come home and got frisky but because a missed scenario created speculation false intentions were construed. So as the holiday season becomes ever nearer let the false intentions get construed, speculations brought forward, lottery winning frenzies continue, skewed perceptions become reality, and most very important let us 'afford' what we want and spend our monies on what is most important to us. Take it easy, Derrick Lee Myers Comments (1)
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