What would I do with a million dollars?   

 

The boring me (the real me) says I would invest the money in a secure, diversified, safe way, and have a nice, secure, safe retirement.  

 

My alternative self says, if I could avoid blowing the money on hookers and drugs (seriously), I would travel until the money ran out.   Spend a little time in big cities, spend a little time in the country, see Europe, see the United States, just move whenever I got bored with wherever I was.   I think a million bucks would finance about 10 years of travel.   Of course, I am married, so the hookers and drugs thing is out of the question, but I am saying if I had ultimate freedom to do anything I wanted with the money...

 

In reality, we spend so much of our lives desperately seeking money, and then when we get it, we spend the rest of our lives trying to keep it safe, and what have we accomplished?  All we've done is bow down to the god of money.   It's like the way we treat gold.  We dig it up, melt it down, and then we lock it up in a vault and hire someone to guard it.  What good is that? 

 

You really need to think seriously.   When people tell you, "Don't waste your money."   Which of these is wasting money: spending it, or saving it? 

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