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'My Corduroyed Life' - Mark A's Journal
Is annoying and itchy…
It’s even MORE annoying and itchy when it’s on your chest. Thank goodness for good quality moisturiser!
That is all.
M x
Current mood:
annoyed.Current music: Creature of Comfort by Olive.
Have you ever really thought about gameshows beyond their light entertainment?
We all know it’s not a fair world. We all know that the good people don’t always get the good stuff happen to them. But I guess I’ve never really thought about that that much.
Gameshows are dishing out obscene amounts of money these days. Gone are the days of dodgy speedboats to people who live in the Midlands, a couple of hundred quid, bendy Bullys, and BFH: people are now winning thousands and thousands of pounds on high profile gameshows like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and Deal Or No Deal. Huge, life changing amounts of money. But I never really thought about it as random people I didn’t know won a million, £250,000, £150,000, £75,000, £25,000, &c. Even a grand or a few grand is a significant amount of money to win for sitting in a chair for a day answering questions under pressure. But these people take a day off work, and it changes their life forever.
As I say, I never really thought about it. Then I heard about a guy from my year at school going on a gameshow and winning £70,000. £70fucking000. I didn’t really know the guy, but we didn’t get on. He was never particularly horrible to me, but we didn’t like each other. And this guy now has a free £70,000 and I don’t. It’s tough to take that someone I don’t really like has had such an amazing break and I haven’t. We all dream of winning the lottery or getting a huge cheque when an auntie you never knew you had leaves you millions in her will or winning a huge amount on a gameshow, but it’s always just dreaming. Only when someone you know gets a lucky break like this does it sink in that it happens to real people.
I know what I’d do with £70,000, but I don’t have it. I never really expected it either. But now it’s all so real that it does happen to real people (and unfortunately, people I didn’t get on with at school) that maybe the next time I buy a lottery ticket or try to get on Millionaire or whatever, I might have even more pathetic forlorn hope than usual.
For some, life’s a bitch and then you die. For others, life’s a bitch, you win £70,000 and it gets a bit better, then you die. Wish I was the latter, not the former…
M x
Current mood:
annoyed.Current music: Fill My Little World by The Feeling.