Luck that concept by which thousands, millions of people throughout their lives place such emphasis. The gambler who try's to double his opportunity by increasing his stake to negate the previous failure. The person who wildly assumes that because someone must win then the involvement in the game brings them closer to winning.
Perceptions are at the root of our failure to confront the fact that at 50 million to 1 your chance of kissing a frog which then turns into a princess is only slighter more unlikely. Of course being the frog yourself and finding the princesses flocking to your side after winning 60 million is a far better bet.
This fantasising of immediate riches and the mental games we play, spending and giving the money, sets in perspective the values we have and how money distorts value.
Of course to be able to give someone who is battling sufficient to dig them out of their financial hole is a tremendous idea especially since we know people who are maimed by the weight of debt given the pressure of interest on interest on interest, and can never emerge into the daylight. It's interesting that one of the main tenets of Islam is the ban on charging or receiving interest, perhaps it was an antidote to the Middle Eastern market place and the business of the Jewish money lenders.
The queues in Tesco's and Sainsbury's to buy a Lottery ticket at £2 each were long, as the punters began to panic in the lead up to the draw. 50 million to 1 wasn't in their mindset since they must have reasoned that this ticket they were buying, not the one the chap in front had just bought, was the winner. It's not a question of optimism perhaps more a question of pessimism. Pessimism with the way their empty lives are running without a huge wad of notes to back up what ever they do, lives which have become so devalued that we need 60 million to make good.
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