Let's say there's a particular day in your life. On this day you find out that you have just won over One Billion Dollars. Either through the lottery, or some raffle at work, or you were in some rich person's will.
On that same day, however, you find out someone you love dearly dies.
Depends on who it was. If it was my wife, children, siblings, or parents, close friends, and grandparents, no amount of money would make me feel better for a while. If it was anyone else, it would be good day because I don't know them that well and it wouldn't sting as much.
Still, the day is bittersweet to a degree regardless.
Immediate family, grandparents, immediate cousins, and a few secondary cousins would all qualify to make it a bad day. Maybe about 25 of my other acquaintances could have the same effect. That's upward of 150 people. I can't believe I haven't had an awful day yet.
If you lost a relative, like a mother, father, or sibling...or a boyfreind or girlfreind....the same day you win a billion dollars- what kind of day is that ?
I don't think there is a real answer.
It just depends on the person who experiences it. The same situation is different for every individual.
besides....people all over the world lose loved ones everyday. It's nothing unique. I think for those who suffer this in poverty, the suffering may be a tad bit more extreme than those who are wealthy...just a thought. I could be wrong.
Well, I think it's universal that anyone who loses someone they love will suffer.
However, people cope differently. Some people can move forward much better than others. Many factors play into this, including various life situations such as: self confidense, social relations, and finances.
Many things contribute to one's happiness/stability besides relations with loved ones.
I personally think it would be much easier for a person who loves thier job, makes a lot of $$$, and has plenty self confidense to cope with the death of a dear loved one, then a person who makes very little money, is in massive debt, hates the way he/she looks, has poor relations with other people, has almost no freinds, etc.
The death of a loved one for the second person would probably cause far more trauma than for the first person.
If I may: Of those responding, how many have actually lost a dearly loved one? Who here speaks from experience of such loss rather than imagining what it would be like, pitting that against imagining sudden wealth?
I wonder which celebrities who have lost parents at a young age, I wonder if they would trade all their wealth and fame to have their loved one back.
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Fortunately, I have not yet lost a family member to death. The closest thing I can say is losing partners that I have loved due to various circumstances. But I doubt it's the same feeling.
However, I can assure you.....winning over a billion dollars will CERTAINLY take a load of stress off my life, and i would rather be in a situation where i lose someone I love but gain that extant of financial security, then lose someone I love in my current state of affairs.
It wud be hard to say if someone died like in my family it wud be sad cus they are my family so i say a bad day .but the money that i won wud cheer me up in the later weeks ahead.
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Indeed. I would rather lose a loved one and still have the $billion then lose the loved one and not have the $billion--as long as they are completely unrelated events. Otherwise, I'd rather lose the $$$ if it meant I could keep my loved one.
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I think a major part of this would also be tied up in how the person went.
If my mother was suffering with cancer, the loss may be very hard, but the idea that she is not suffering any more would be positive, and in a long term situation like that, many people are able to come to grips, to some degree, with the loss, and it may soften to blow.
That being said, having a billion dollars on the same day I lose a loved one would be tragic. Heroin addiction 101.
Yeah, there's that part too. There are times people around me have died and I was glad they died. Not because I didn't love them. They were in this life in a bad way, being tortured by their existence. Death was mercy.
So it seems so far that everyone realizes that it is the perception of the day, and not the day itself. The day itself is neutral, while the reaction is what determines whether or not this day is good or bad.
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