Making It Count
Making It Count
Red Feather Contest
If I had one million dollars and only one day to live, then that is just what I would have, nothing more and nothing less. The one million dollars that I hold in my possession means nothing to me once I die the next day. Without life, money cannot be used. So why not give the money away to someone who can use it? Why keep the money when it would either go to waste or be fought over by relatives?
Each side has its strengths and weaknesses, but only one decision is right. The one million dollars and the one day of life are big factors but can be easily dealt with. One million dollars can buy a lot of fancy merchandise, but since you die the next day anything you buy would mean nothing, except for the one day you bought it.
Thomas Edison once said “Time is Money”, so if you get one million dollars and one day to live, then that could mean that 24 hours of life is worth 1 million dollars.
Many choices come up in your head when your eyes come across the question
“If I had one million dollars and only one day to live, I would….?” Instead of writing some crazy idea for spending the million dollars and the one day to live, I decided to write about what I thought of the question itself.
Sometimes the question given doesn’t always need to be answered; it just