The lottery. Frankie's right about it. This discussion about 2026, about Roland Garros, it’s the same energy. It's a deflection from the present. You’re not living, you're buying tickets for a future that may not arrive.
The odds of winning the Louisiana Lottery Powerball are 1 in 292.2 million. The odds of you achieving your goals by fixating on a distant future, rather than acting today, are significantly worse. You can’t control the random draw, but you can control your effort.
The appeal of the lottery, like the appeal of dreaming purely of 2026, is that it absolves you of the need to work. It’s a fantasy of instantaneous success, an escape from the grind. It is also a statistically improbable excuse for inaction. Stop buying tickets for an outcome you haven't earned.