Like a puzzle life is in pieces, we just have to put the right pieces in place for our pursuit to happiness. Not many people understand what it means to make your dreams come true, It's not the making the dream come true part that is so important but what comes after. So lets say you're dream is to win millions of dollars and you play the lottery and win. So what comes next? I've head stores that it made many people worse off, they would spend all the money not pay the IRS and end up in trouble with the law because they didn't understand the responsibilities of money...because most people don't have the chance to handle large sums of money. 

So Let's say you get an adviser, someone who takes care of the finances and investments to make your money grow. Just because you have a million dollars doesn't really mean you're a millionaire. What I mean by that statement is you don't count your total worth as that is investments, you count your income from you're investments. So if you have 10 million invested @10% interest = 1mln -37% tax because it's over 500k however only the income over 500k is taxed at 37% everything under that is taxed from 10% on up for each bracket. So your first 10k would be taxed at 10% and anything between 10% to 38% if taxed at 12% this keeps going all the way up to 500k and anything over 500k is taxed at 37% fed. Keep in mind this doesn't count state tax. So you're million income is a little more than half depending on what your state/local tax is like not accounting for joint tax filing or dependents but just to give you an idea of what 1 million income looks like when it gets to your pocket...isn't a million. 

The point is that money is just a tool to build your dreams, it's also fuel to live with out stress and time taken from you. This means you can spend all your time working on what you love doing and not working for some job or corp you hate. People who love to work would still love to work on what they love doing vs someone else dream and getting them rich.  I know a few people who have a lot of money and still work at the local burger joint just because they love being around the people and enjoy the job. They where happy and was not ready to change that. It's funny when i hear the saying "Money can't buy you happiness" It's was never meant to buy you happiness it just took care of all the stress, road blocks, limits that life hands you when in your pursuit of happiness.  I know a lot of people who live modestly but have millions in the bank/investments. I know one who drives around in a plain old car just because it doesn't draw attention to him and he blends in with out any problems. Smart move, for my I would have my project cars, the old muscle cars on two fronts. one restoring it back just the way it was made to start with and the other is to do as many mods i could making it a monster muscle car! The other would be custom motorcycles, I mean from the frame to the engine all custom made 100% oh yea!!! What would you do if you didn't have to worry about money because you can buy and do anything you wanted?

Anyways I did walk down this path and my mind was rattled with thoughts but every thing else is just art and creations of my mind. The water and park to the side, heck even the buildings, mountain is all art I did.  Enjoy my photo art. 

![YIAC0448-found-inspirations-trails-is-as-is-#326.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmSkE3aj6KS7vKACysxF1RaAngbugwLxfonwL7KtCfe88M/YIAC0448-found-inspirations-trails-is-as-is-#326.png)

| Camera   | Yi Action 4K+ |
| -------- | ------------- |
| Settings | Auto
| Lens     | Stock
| Style    | Landscape
| Location | California
| Software | Gimp 2
| Artist   | Jonbit

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