lotto madness, and despair...

So the 254 million dollar powerball winning ticket was picked at a supermarket about twenty-five minutes from my house. There was a feverpitch around town this morning as it was confirmed that the ticket was somewhere in Missouri, and then later in EASTERN Missouri, and finally the supermarket of mention. It's amazing what the lottery does with a winning sum of that much. Everyone begins their ridiculous fantasies, and more over everyone thinks that they are the special chosen one to win. I fall in the same category, but nothing sobers you like not being chosen for something so unbelievable. I think the lottery is alot like life in many ways. Everyone believes they are special, and capible of going beyond their daily lives, but in reality 99% of us are just plain jane, and will never experience true wonder and stardom on any level. Oh, we'll have them in small spurts and spits here and there, but nothing that is so life changing. The lottery and Hollywood really go hand and hand. The haves and have nots. The American Idols, and NBA basketball players, and sports players of all. Many will never know anything more than that of what they have now, and others will fly high, and look down upon us with greed and smugness. So maybe the real trick is to think that if a tremendous change of what we may think would be great great great would change us into something we and our friends and families would not prefer. We'd be soured. Just like I would like to think that many would read my prattle sprayed out on this blog, I know that I'll be lucky to catch the attention of one. So carry on America, and count your pennies and blessings, take stock, and be grateful with what surrounds you, changes of GREATNESS are as rare as one of those flying monkeys from the Wiz of Oz flying into your bedroom to serve you tea and crumpets.