I've always wondered if is better to be good or lucky.
Not to say that if you are lucky, you are not good and vice versa.
I think "good" is more subjective and interpretive than lucky. I mean you could be a good person and perform a good deed. You could also be "good for nothing." You could be good-looking. You could be as good as gone.
But to be "lucky" means you are the winner, usually of some fortune or something of value.
Unless you are just lucky to be alive.
I think this question came about when someone won the lottery and he/she was not a nice person. They thought to themselves, "Gee, I don't have to be good now that I am lucky!"
That got me thinking. I've thought about it long and hard. I’ve think that I would rather be lucky because it wouldn't take much effort. But to be good, I'd have to practice, use good manners and exert energy. To be lucky, you just have to be patient and have enough money to play the game.
Oh yeah, like most of us, I've got lots of time and little money. Now, wait a minute, if I run out of money, then what? Then I'd have go back to being good, right?
That worries me a little. Once you enjoyed the privileges of money so long, you no longer strive to be good because the challenge is no longer there.
They tell me that money is a motivator. A motivator to do what? To buy cocaine or donate to charities?
I’ve read somewhere that the U S government was considering not printing anymore $100 bills because not having these will discourage the world-wide underground drug dealing business. Imagine, counting out $1 dollar bills to pay for a million dollar haul?
Paper money is almost obsolete anyway. Plastic is the currency of the modern society. I understand you can now even tip someone using bitcoins.
Just the other day, I went to my local 7-11 and outside the store entrance was what appeared to be this homeless guy asking if I could spare a dollar. I said, “Sure, which credit cards do you take?" I don’t know what I would have done if he pulled out his credit card machine and said, “Any and all!”
But I digress. Good or Lucky, which is it?
I guess I'll have to learn to be neither. Bad and unlucky. That's easy.
