Winning the lottery is not always a ticket to happiness

Winning the lottery can`t guarantee you a sunny future

Many people have this misconception that winning the lottery is a guarantee for happiness forever and always. The fantasies that go through the heads of lottery players when seeing lotto results for their favorite lotteries are most of the time very unrealistic. This is because they believe that once they hit the jackpot, they will have solved their financial woes for a lifetime. Social needs as well as issues related to health and school and of which require money will be taken care of. This is not always the case and this article is going to point that out very clearly by using tales from people who literally lived to tell the story.

A few years ago, in 1998 to be precise, a gentleman known as William ‘Bud’ Post III stumbled on his lucky break. He was announced lucky winner of $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania lottery. Obviously he was super excited but little did he know he would come to wish that he had never won that lottery. His is a tale of trouble and more trouble pursuing him. His string of bad luck after winning started with his brother actually hiring a hit man to kill him and his sixth wife. His tragedy went a notch higher when some of his relatives got him to invest in businesses that merely stopped at that investment because they never paid off. Clearly, the lotto results for his favorite game had started a horrible chapter of his life. The list of misfortunes continued when William’s landlady made him share a third of his winnings with her yet she had not been promised. At some point he got on the wrong side of the law when he fired a gun over the head of a bill collector. Thus, he had to pay by serving time in jail. Well, eight years later he declared bankruptcy and soon enough his end came calling. He died of respiratory failure in a hospital in Pittsburgh.

The story of lucky William serves to show that not every lotto winner will get to enjoy the money without having the problems that the common person usually encounters. On the flip side there are winners who actually have no misfortunes after winning but it is good to know that there is a dark side to the seemingly exciting position to be in. So next time the lotto results for your favorite lottery game, come out do not be too excited about the possibility of being announced the winner.

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