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Buddy Post, a 58 —year-old cook and carnival worker is living proof that money can’t buy happiness. In 1988 Post won $16.2 million in the Pennsylvania Lottery. Since that time he has been convicted of assault, his brother has tried to kill him, his sixth wife has left him, and his landlady has successfully sued and won 1/3 of his jackpot.
“Money didn’t change me,” said Buddy Post, “but it changed the people around me that I knew, that I thought cared a little bit about me. Sadly he concluded,” but they only cared about the money.”
Buddy Post is trying to auction off seventeen of his future winning payments so he can pay off back taxes, failed business ventures, and legal fees. Post plans to spend the rest of his life pursuing lawsuits he currently has filed against judges, police and lawyers, who, according to him, are also conspiring to take his winnings. “I’m just going to stay home and mind my p’s and q’s” because it seems to him, just as rotting material attracts flies, so does lottery money attract people.
William Ogden says, “The ingredients of happiness are so simple that they can be counted on one hand. First of all, happiness must be shared. Selfishness is its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one’s self. It is quiet, seldom found for long in crowds, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within, and rests most securely on simple goodness and a clear conscience. It cannot be bought; indeed money, strange as it may seem, has very little to do with it.”
Appeal text: “And He said unto them, Take heed and beware of
covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth.” [Luke 12:15 KJV]
Submitted by Global Missions Communications
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