I woke up this morning and thanked God for not letting me win the Powerball or the Lotto. I could dream of everything I could do with so much money. Buy a 500-ft yacht à la Bezos, or buy an Island like Mark Zuckerberg is doing, or use my money to take trips with Epstein like Bill Gates did, or have 14 children with different women like Elon Musk. Those dreams were dashed when not a single number appeared on the lotto ticket.
But God knows what he does; he was saving me from the abuse from family members and friends that occurs way too often.
A lottery win is supposed to be the fantasy ending to a regular life—wake up, check your ticket, and suddenly everything changes. That’s the dream. But for one self-described “regular Jane who got lucky,” the biggest surprise wasn’t the money. It was how her family managed to turn the jackpot into a source of stress, guilt, and tension.
In a now-archived Reddit post, the anonymous winner opened up about how what should’ve been a life-changing windfall turned into a personal nightmare. “I won money that is life changing and it’s stressing me out,” she admitted, laying out the thoughtful financial plan she and her partner had put in place.
“We will be able to live off of interest for the rest of our lives,” she wrote, adding that they plan to preserve the principal for their future children.
She also gave her sister and her mother $2 million each. That’s $4 million in family generosity, no strings attached. But instead of gratitude, she says, she got demands.
Her mother and sister called her selfish for not coughing up more. “They’re asking for a family beach home on top of the money we’ve given,” she explained. On top of that, they spilled the news to extended relatives, who’ve since flooded her with requests of their own. “It has caused me great anxiety.”
Despite all of this, the judgment kept coming. “I’ve heard them say I am stingy and this is extremely hurtful,” she wrote. She’s now expected to pick up every dinner check, which she doesn’t mind occasionally—but the entitled tone has started to take its toll.
I hope that each and every one was blessed by God this day, which is special to so many people throughout the World. Merry Christmas if you are a Christian, have a happy day if you are not.
