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If Money Was No Object, What Would You Do?
Your answer is more instructive than you think
It can feel like life is one everlasting pursuit to acquire more and more money. We work in jobs we don’t like, to earn money that we spend on stuff we don’t particularly want. Money is the central pivot around which our lives dance.
Without it, we can’t do much and we are pushed to the margins of society. With limitless amounts of money, we can do whatever we want and even mould society in our image. Money talks and it plays a bigger role in our lives than we realise.
The lottery is a concept that I find intriguing. Anyone can buy a ticket which gives them the chance to win millions. A life-altering amount of money. Week after week, people pay a small fee, based on the even smaller odds they might strike it lucky and win big.
None of us would turn down the opportunity to win millions. You’d either be an ascetic loving monk or stupid to do so. But how many of us have contemplated what we’d do with all that money if we did win?
If money was no object, what would you do? It’s an intriguing question because it provides us with the opportunity to consider how our lives would look if the pursuit of money was rendered moot.
