Lotto Winners: Lucky Ones?

Lotto Winner

If you happen to be a lotto winner your life is never going to be the same again. Not only your life, but the lives of friends and relatives will also change — and the change may not always be good. Life-changing things have happened to people who have overnight attained the status of being a lotto winner.

No matter how you have won the lotto, whether you drew the winning numbers yourself or used the windows lotto pro software, the fact is that you will be richer by tens of millions of pounds or euros, and things will start to change almost instantaneously.

Mark Gardiner won a record prize of £ 11 million and was sure that all his problems were a thing of the past. However, though his present problems vanished, he got into new ones that he was not trained for or capable of handling. Mark won the jackpot with his business partner and friend Paul Maddison. Together the two won a record £ 22 million and Mark got his share of £ 11 million. Shunning the limelight, Paul withdrew into the background while Mark decided to have some fun.

Before he could understand it, Mark blew half of his winnings. He gave to friends and relatives, bought expensive cars and houses, married and then divorced, but his problems never seemed to end. His family shunned him as though he had committed a crime. Finally he regained his bearings and is now wiser and remarried to his first wife (a childhood sweetheart) whom he had divorced when he was penniless.

However, not every story is as heart breaking as the one mentioned above. There have been more than a few people who have made good on their fortune and remained grounded. Ianthe Fullagar, a student, won an astonishing £ 7,055,142. After the usual screaming in disbelief she settled down and called her boyfriend and family and shared the news with them. Ianthe intends to share her new found wealth with her near ones and to continue to pursue her law studies. The only new thing she planned to buy was new transportation.

One anonymous winner donated all his $3 million winnings to his church without batting an eye. The church has decided to not only expand its facilities to accommodate the growing congregation, but to also donate some of the money to charities.

A Lotto Winner Can Do A lot Good

The point is, as a lotto winner you find yourself in the enviable position to do a lot of good for yourself and for those around you. Your community also stands to benefit, but only if you maintain a cool head and spend the money wisely.

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