Our present state is the sum of all the choices made in the past.
I thought that the choices faced by life were only right and wrong, but the choices I really faced were: right and easy! Once you choose the easy one and gain a little, from now on, you will only have one option left in your life----------- shortcut!
The quickest way to ruin a person is to make him take shortcuts!
We are faced with only two choices: the right one and the easy one!
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" style="text-align: center" > thought to find a shortcut to making money, but gambled to ruin</h1>
Five years ago, I met my current girlfriend, who was going to talk about marriage after a year together, but her parents were not happy with my financial situation and did not agree with the two of us together.
Helplessly, the two of us could only secretly sneak together in private. Since then, I've been thinking about how to make money every day.
I am a small employee of a state-owned enterprise, the salary is not high or low, if you only rely on wage accumulation, it is unrealistic to achieve the goal of wealth. At that time, the only way to make money was to do business, because there was no start-up capital, I had a formal job on my own, and started a business with a bank loan.
Because there was no experience in doing business, and at that time, the business was always losing money, and eventually the funds were broken, and the business failed.
After that, by chance, I came into contact with the lottery, and after the initial small gains, I felt that I had found a shortcut to make money, and from then on, I was out of control, step by step to the abyss.
On December 22, 2001, China Football Lottery was officially released.
At first, because it was the start of the European Championship in France, I bought a score for the opening match at the lottery station downstairs, but I didn't expect to see the result the next day and win the lottery. At that time, a hundred yuan was invested, and the prize money was nearly one thousand yuan.
Euro 2016 opener, France 2:1 Romania!
I worked hard for more than three thousand a month, but I earned a small half a month's salary for a 90-minute game. It's too easy to make this money.
Since then, I have frequented lottery stations and met some "golfers" who bought lottery tickets and learned more ways to play with them. Until the end of the European Championship, I earned more than half a year's salary. At that time, I took my girlfriend out all day to splurge, I had no awareness of saving money, I felt that I had no money to buy two games to make money, and I didn't think about stopping it, I only had the shortcut option of buying a football lottery in this matter.
After the end of the European Championship, there are very few games, and golfers tell me that small games are not easy to buy, and the results can be manipulated, and they will buy them after the start of the five major leagues. At first, I didn't believe in evil, but after losing a few games, I stopped more sensibly and began to wait for the start of the five major leagues.
"From frugality to luxury, from luxury to frugality!" This sentence is vividly reflected in me.
At that time, the cigarettes I smoked changed from a few dollars a pack to dozens of dollars a pack, but due to spending a lot of money, the money earned by buying balls was soon left, helpless, I could only live back to the original life, but I felt very uncomfortable, and the days when there were no balls to buy made me feel very tormented!
Finally, the five major leagues began, and I began to go in and out of the sports lottery station every day. However, just bought a few games and lost them all. Golfers told me that buying a ball can not just rely on luck to guess, but to look at the game data in advance. I didn't know any data at the time, but in order to win money, I went home and studied the game data seriously, and later, I came up with a pattern. Then, I started buying balls according to the rules I had researched, with very high accuracy.
During that time, I won a lot of money, bought a few games to top a month's salary, and I was more convinced that I had found a shortcut to getting rich. Don't worry about the days to come! The whole person floated up, and finally even the class was not good. At that time, I felt that violating labor discipline was not a fine, and I still cared about that little money? If you have that time, it is better to study a game of football and double the money you have won back.
Football lottery
However, I didn't think about it at all, there are so many smarter people than me, if it is really so easy to make money, then everyone has already sent it, who will work hard?
After winning for a while, my method started to fail and the accuracy plummeted. At that time, I made a lot of money by relying on this method, so I think it was just my own bad luck, who didn't have a little back time?
It wasn't until I lost all the money I had won that I reacted, and my method didn't work. At that time, I was very anxious, although I only lost the money I won, but I felt that I had lost a lot, so I immediately went home to study new laws.
After studying for a while, I found another pattern, when I was very confident in myself, in order to win back the money I lost quickly, after a short attempt, I began to increase the stakes. And after losing, the next game doubled to buy.
But, nine out of ten, nine losers, rightly so, I didn't become the tenth. Soon, I lost all the money I had.
I was very depressed, and at this time, the unit leader also called me to inform me that if I did not go to work well, he would punish me. In desperation, I had to go back to work.
It didn't take long for me to feel that it was really painful to make this little money in the unit every day, although there was no money at that time, and the salary was the only income, but after making money, I thought it was very easy to make money. It's just that the method of my own research is incorrect.
After a while in class, I started studying the data again, and this time I was patient and summarized a lot of data. Finally, a pattern was found, after a period of observation, and a few small attempts, the accuracy rate was very high. So I started buying balls again, and at this time I had very little money, but I was not satisfied with the small fights.
Finally, I started borrowing money from friends, family, and colleagues.
This time the result is the same. At first I won money, but when I thought that after I bet with confidence, I began to lose money, and soon the borrowed money was lost, at this time, I had no idea of giving up, and I just wanted to continue to gamble to win back the lost money.
The borrowed money was lost, and I began to apply for credit cards, apply for various online loans, and even borrow credit cards from relatives.
Overdraft credit card
It wasn't until I had lost all my money that I woke up, but by this time it was too late. The debt is beyond their ability to repay.
With the arrival of the promised repayment date. At first, only online loans and credit cards called to collect debts, and later, some relatives, friends, and colleagues were in a hurry to use money and also began to collect debts from me, but I could not repay them at all, and could only delay time. Slowly, the time dragged on longer and longer, during which the bank staff also went to the unit to collect debts in person, and my personal image directly collapsed, which can be said to be a rebellion.
The multitudes rebelled
I originally thought that I had found a shortcut to making money, but I was led to the abyss by this shortcut.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" style="text-align: center" > wealth gained through shortcuts, but ruined their lives</h1>
Since the advent of the lottery, winning the lottery has become the dream of countless people.
Many people envy the people who have won the jackpot, envy their life shortcuts, and even some people are jealous of their good luck.
However, those who have won the jackpot and taken shortcuts are really worthy of our envy?
Many people who win the jackpot are very low-key, and after winning the lottery, they choose not to publish their names and quietly accept the prize. But Zhang Changshun is an exception, many people have heard of this name, and his information can be found on the Internet, but what makes his name public is not because he won the jackpot, but because of illegal crimes.
In 2010, when Zhang Changshun was working in Dalian, he accidentally won the big lotto jackpot. After winning the lottery, he returned to Shenyang with his wife, bought a house and a car, and deposited all the rest of the money in the bank.
Originally, he could live an enviable happy life.
Unexpectedly, he won the jackpot, and at the instigation of relatives and friends, he germinated the idea of winning more jackpots. Then, Zhang Changshun became a gambler, and it was common for him to bet more than 10,000 in a lottery ticket.
He later said: "If I don't win the lottery ticket of 20,000 yuan today, I will invest 40,000 yuan in the next period, and then 80,000 yuan... Just thinking about winning back what you lost. ”
In just 8 months, he used the money from his savings, the house under his name and the sale of his car to buy lottery tickets, and returned to the pre-liberation period overnight!
Not only that, he ran out of money, and he also defrauded friends and classmates of borrowing more than two million yuan. After losing all his money again, Zhang Changshun chose to abscond. He was eventually arrested and sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined more than two million.
Zhang Changshun was sentenced
This seems to us to be "No work, no die!" " is a typical example. Many of us do not understand, obviously this money is at least enough to spend a lifetime, why do more things, want to make more money?
People are greedy, and when we have those riches and our living conditions improve, it is difficult to keep our consumption level the same as before. Once we experience a better life, we want to move towards a higher level, the lottery prize is not enough to support our ideas, we want to make more money, we will choose to continue to buy lottery. Because if a person succeeds through shortcuts, he will naturally take shortcuts for granted, and taking shortcuts is the only option.
Think about yourself or the friends who buy lottery tickets around you, obviously you don't have hope when you buy lottery tickets, but you don't win the lottery after the lottery, and your heart will still be lost. There are some people who have won a small prize, or after only one number away from winning the lottery, they are out of control and invest more and more in the lottery. It's hard for them to control themselves, let alone those who win the jackpot?
In such a case, not only Zhang Changshun, but also a man from Taiwan, who squandered tens of millions of huge prizes in just two years. When we search the Internet for "what happened to the jackpot winners", we see many similar examples. The better ones are just squandering the bonuses, the more serious wives are separated, the illegal imprisonment, and even some of them are killed. Moreover, there are many similar cases abroad.
Canadian man Gerald Muswagan, who squandered the huge prize money for seven years, finally couldn't stand the huge gap and chose to hang himself; British man Wins Taylor, who won the grand prize twice in five years, but lost the prize within a few years and started again as a mason; the 17-year-old American woman Senia, who won the huge prize six years apart, faced bankruptcy...
Squandered property and moved back to the countryside from mansions
A survey by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that in the past 20 years, most jackpot winners in Europe and the United States have become impoverished due to profligacy less than five years after winning the lottery. At the same time, the bankruptcy rate of U.S. lottery winners is as high as 75% per year, and 9 out of every 12 winners go bankrupt! ”
Winning the lottery allowed these people to obtain huge wealth through shortcuts and could have lived a happy and stable life, but because of the side effects of shortcuts, they changed their minds and ruined their lives.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" style="text-align: center" > culprit is itself</h1>
As I said at the beginning of the article, there is nothing wrong with the choices we face, only the right ones and easy ones. In fact, the culprit that led to our failure is ourselves! There is nothing wrong with an easy choice in itself, we mistake it for the right choice.
At first, if I had chosen the former between working hard and buying a lottery. Then, after winning the lottery for the first time, I will not have the idea of making money by buying a lottery, and I will not end up ruining my family and losing my credibility.
At the beginning, if Zhang Changshun chose the former between reasonable financial management and continuing to buy lottery. Then, after winning the lottery, he will not feel that buying lottery is the only choice, and the interest generated by depositing money in the bank can also make him well-fed.
However, time cannot be turned back, and most people have taken shortcuts to success, and their life choices are only left with shortcuts. Only when the shortcut leads you to the abyss, do you suddenly wake up and regret it.
Pay for knowledge
This year, due to the epidemic, the knowledge payment has exploded. Years later, during the period of isolation at home, I wanted to change myself and learn something new, thinking that I knew how to make choices after the colorful things, but I made an easy choice.
When I searched for relevant content on the Internet, I found a lot of advertisements for related online courses, which were written with the words "Quick Start" and "Quick Master", and I was attracted by these words, gave up looking for books, and chose to sign up for online courses.
After studying a lot of online classes before and after, I found that the quality of online classes was uneven, and some of the teachers of the courses were not even as high as my own level. Fortunately, I stopped in time, started looking for books again, and made the right choice.
There are many similar situations in life, and we need to remind ourselves at all times, otherwise, even if people like me have had the experience of losing money, it is easy to choose shortcuts again.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" style="text-align: center" > Summary: If you want to wear a crown, you must bear its weight</h1>
Without accumulation, there is no bearing capacity
We often secretly rejoice after making easy choices and achieving some gains, thankful that many steps have been omitted. However, this is just a coincidence. To be truly successful, these steps cannot be omitted. Otherwise, you can easily be overwhelmed by the crown.
When faced with choices, we must correct our mentality, distinguish between the right and the easy, and choose the right. Don't take shortcuts for granted.
Shortcuts may make you successful, but successful people must not because they have taken shortcuts. More often, shortcuts will lead you to the abyss.