Friday, March 30, 2012

How Fast Would You Change Places with Hurley from Lost to Win Tonight's Mega Millions?



Remember Hurley? Always bitching and moaning about all the bad luck he had after winning a near record lottery? I'd take that bad luck in an overly obese man's heartbeat. Seriously man, quit your bitching.

I've never understood all these "curse of the lottery" articles that come out every time Powerball or Mega Millions hits an absurd number. CNN and Fox News acting like mega rich lottery winners are the only ones with tragedy in their lives, and all the money in the world couldn't buy them happiness.

Well maybe it can't, and maybe getting stuck on Lost Island for a few televisions season sucked, but you know who else thought it sucked, all the other people from Lost WHO WEREN'T MILLIONAIRES...Yea, it's not like Hurley was the only one stuck on that island, or the only one who had a little bit of bad fortune back home. But you know what the difference was? The rest of them would all have to go back to every day grinds back home, earning their paychecks, Hurley would still be a mega-millionaire. 

Same shit applies in real life. I'm so tired of reading these sob stories about people who win the lottery. EVERYONE HAS PROBLEMS. Maybe money can't buy you happiness, but it for sure helps you handle problems along the way. Plenty of people experience tragedy every day that haven't won the lottery, I don't see any news stories popping up about the curse of not winning Mega-Millions though.  It's like I'm living in a bizarro world where I'm supposed to feel sympathy for some truck driver who won a whole new life he could have never in a million years experienced based on his career and educational choices, just because there were a few deaths in the family, or a few lawsuits came his way. Big fucking whoop, that shit happens every day to everyone, they'd gladly change places to have it happening while also having North of $100MM lying around in their checkbook, that's for damn sure.