our plans for our millions

Posted on April 9, 2008

Ramil and I would sometimes try our luck with the lottery. Most of the time, we’d get enticed whenever the prize money is really big already. Just a few weeks ago, we decided to try our luck on a 200 million prize. It was funny that we were already planning what to do with our millions even though we haven’t really won yet.

We’ve already decided to spend 10% of it for the three of us (Ramil, Mateo, and me), 10% for our families, relatives, and friends, and 80% for charitable causes. Ramil was hesitant to agree at first until I pointed out to him that 10% of 200 million is 20 million! We already knew what we wanted for our 20 million, a new car, our own house, and a business of our own. It was as simple and straightforward as that so we didn’t really spend that much time talking about it. What provided a good conversation for us was the 80% of our imaginary prize money. We got so excited thinking about different causes we’d like to do.

Being teachers, the first thing we came up with was a scholarship fund. We are inclined towards anything to help improve education and to help children have access to good education. We could even donate car to Car Angel, a non-profit company that uses car and other donations to make videos for kids and teens.

Since we’re both nature-lovers and Ramil is a biologists, we’ve also thought of donating to WWF or Haribon. Children with terminal illnesses came next in our list. Those were the items on our top 3. Ramil and I have discussed other causes which I have forgotten already. LOL.

Our conversation ended with both of us really excited about the 80%, the 10% seemed so trivial compared to what the 80% stands for. The next day, the winner for the lottery was drawn. We won’t be getting our 10%. I just hope whoever won (somebody did) would allot a part of the winnings to his or her own charitable causes.