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Originally Posted by uspirate

another interesting story is of one of my former best friends. in 2000 his mom recieved an extremely large insurance settlement (approx 22 mil) she gave him 1 million for himself. he immediately quit his 62k per year job (teeling everyone to kiss his A$$ because he's rich) bought a house paying cash (360k) automobiles (160k) boat motorcycles, high end electronics etc etc. he ditched all his friends including myself because now we weren't wealthy enough for him (note that i used to loan this guy money to pay his rent buy gasoline etc) in mid 2007 all the money was gone and now he has no more friends, his "Dream Wife" left him and he had to start work making $16 per hour with a 100 mile daily commute in his Ford F-150 Harley Davidson truck. he still calls on occasion but i dont return his calls. but i'm going to say deep down inside him you can tell he's miserable even though he will tell you he's sitting on top of the world. It was then that i realized money isn't everything.

So why won't you return his calls? Maybe that is why he's unhappy.