Mosaic Life

Dienstag, Januar 25, 2005

So Mr. X, in his late teens, wrote the other day about how he had this feeling that someday he was going to be a millionaire. Mr. X is a middle class person. He's not a genius, doesn't work hard on academics, and doesn't have skills - in a Napoleon Dynamite sense or otherwise. But, he has an overwhelming feeling he is going to be a millionaire.

Here's the thing. If you're not a heir to a great fortune or a genius of some sort, or at least have some sort of amazing ability coupled with social status, don't you usually have to work your butt off to become rich? Don't you have to become one of those misers, or at least become a gangster? Don't you have to do something? The thing about it is, I bet he will become a millionaire. Why? Because it'll further prove to us hard-working kids who are going through college and doing things the "right way" that life is not fair. And it seems the whole "life is not fair" point is something that is reiterated at every opportunity.