Money don't make things mo betta

Here is a sad tale that illustrates an important truth. Changing one's outer circumstances will not make one happy. Again, the mystery of happiness is found in one's character not one's situation.

William "Bud" Post, who died on January 15 aged 66, was, like Vivien Nicholson in Spend, Spend, Spend, a warning that a huge financial win does not guarantee happiness.

In 1988 Post, who had $2.46 in his bank account at the time, pawned a ring for $40 and handed the money to his landlady to buy tickets for the Pennsylvania state lottery. He won $16.2 million, to be paid in annual installments of $500,000 a time.Within two weeks, he had spent $300,000 of it; within three months, he was $500,000 in debt.

Here's the tale.