Somebody somewhere won BIG BIG BIG – one winning ticket won over 400 million dollars.
Ok, it’s official – I’m pouting. Yes indeed. I am crossing my arms over my chest and saying “Humph!”
Why them and not me? The age old questions – don’t I deserve to win?
Of course I do. Just as, of course I don’t.
I deserve to have a master’s degree. I worked hard. I did all the studying. I wrote all the papers. I met all the requirements. I knew before I even started what I would have to do to earn that degree. I knew those requirements would not change while I was working through them. My moral character, generosity to my fellow man, my plans for using my degree, none of that entered into it. Only one thing mattered: I do those requirements – I get the degree. Simple math. I earned it. I deserved it.
What did they do to deserve to win? Simple answer – they bought the ticket with the winning numbers. That is all there is to it. Whether they are good people (whatever that means in this age of opinion equals truth), whether they are going to use the money for good (again, the opinion equals truth social dilemma) – nope, none of that matters. Earning doesn’t enter into it. Deserving is irrelevant. They bought the ticket with the winning numbers. They won. Simple math.
It could have as easily been me as them. I could be the winner and they the loser.
I deserve to win as much as they deserve to win.
They don’t deserve to win anymore than I don’t deserve to win.
Intellectually I know all that, but yet…emotionally I am crossing my arms over my chest and saying, “Humph.”