Do you choose freedom or half a billion USD?

I believe that if you are asked to choose between freedom and 560 million dollars, you will difinitely without any hesitation will choose money. I guess, 10 out of 10 people will give me the same answer. Hey, most people believe that money is essential in their lives, and money is a ticket that can buy them freedom, or is it?

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A lady from New Hampshire, the winner of the Powerball Lottery of $560 million jackpot, is suing the state’s Lottery Commission so that she can remain anonymous. The question is, why did she has to go all out to maintain her anonymity?

If you like to read more about the lucky winner of the jackpot, please click this LINK

I've met and knew a few wealthy people personally, some of them loves to show off their wealth by wearing nice expensive suits, who owns big houses, multiple expensive cars, and what they love the most is the attention and the king like treatment that they received. But, some of them are so low profile, that you won't even have the tiniest of clue of them being wealthy, based on their lifestyle, appearance, attitude and the properties that they have. The question that pops into our mind will be, "Why do some wealthy people has different tendency or views about how they wanted to live their lives?"

Let us see the pros and cons of being a millionaire than being just an ordinary people.

The Pros

Whether you like it or not, there is only 1 advantage of being wealthy which is "FINANCIAL FREEDOM". With the financial wealth that you have, you can almost have everything that you desired in this world.

You can buy anything that you want
You can have all the luxuries that you want
You can go for a holiday anywhere anytime that you want
You can fund your pastimes and passions
You can get the best health care that money can buy
You can help people who needs financial aid
heck, you can also get beautiful girls around you all the time

Simply to say, wealth can buy you anything that you wanted, what your heart desire. But with all the wealth and money that you have, there are things that you just have to sacrifice and have to live up to for the rest of your lives, if of course you don't have any intentions to change your lifestyles.

The Cons

Being wealthy has many advantages, but the number of disadvantages is almost as much, and just can't be denied. Being rich overnight is much more worse.

You'll learn not to fully trust anyone, not your friends, not even your family
You'll always feels insecure, even in your own home
You'll need security and bodyguards to look after you all the time, even when you're sleeping
You are always worried that your money will be stolen and it might not be enough to support your lavish lifestyle
You'll never know if you have found your true love, as you'll never know whether your partner really loves you or your money
You'll never have any privacy, since most people knows you, they will approach you all the time
People will in anyway will try to get their hands on your money
You are always worried and afraid that people will harm yourselves, your family and people that you love, just to get your money by force

Those are just a few examples that I guessed are going through a wealthy man's mind. I'm not saying that being wealthy is bad, being wealthy is actually a God given gift, a choice on how you wanted to live your live, a choice to help the unfortunate people around you, a choice to live happily or miserably.

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As a conclusion, different people has different perceptions about the meaning of "freedom". Poor people dreamed of being rich as they believe money will provide them the freedom that they desperately need, but wealthy people has different understanding about freedom. For them, freedom means privacy and inner peace, and not to worry about the foreseen and unforeseen danger they are facing everyday due to their wealth.

Thank you for reading my post.

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