In what appears to be an ambitious and optimistic approach to the future, 28-year-old Bella Noren’s five-year plan hinges entirely on her winning the lottery, or otherwise experiencing a large, unexpected windfall of cash.
“It’s hard to plan for the future when you’re financially insecure,” Bella told reporters. “That’s why, in order for me to seriously start making my five-year plan, I just had to assume I’d spontaneously come into a ton of cash somewhere along the way.”
Bella said this assumption made creating her life plan so much easier.
“Now, I can plan out the exact future I want without having to do the arduous extra work of figuring out how I’m going to get my finances in check.”
When asked about what exactly her five-year plan entailed, Bella was more than happy to explain.
“This question used to drive me insane because I had literally no idea,” she said. “Like, uh, keep working my job and keep paying rent? But now that I’m working under the assumption that I’m winning the lottery, this question is so fun. Assuming I win the lottery within the next two years, I’ll quit my job then, move out to a big Victorian house in the woods, wake up and work on my art all day every day, and spend the rest of my free time buying vintage clothes and cool furniture.”
She continued, saying, “Then, right around the five-year mark I’ll of course make my big move to London where I’ll live in a beautiful flat with my big Dalmation brood, a la 101 Dalmatians.”
Although Bella’s five-year plan is completely contingent on whether or not she wins the lottery, she’s found that her plan hasn’t exactly gotten more specific under the assumption she has more money.
“The only problem with assuming I’ll have tons of money in the future is that now I want to do a bunch of different things with that money,” she explained. “It’s difficult to really pin down a true five-year plan when I now, financially, have the entire world at my fingertips.”
As of press time, Bella had solved her problem –– in addition to assuming she’d win the lottery, she also decided to operate under the assumption that she’d become massively famous because of her art.
“That really narrows it down for me,” she said. “So, now, I can definitively say that my five-year plan is pretty much just me becoming a super famous artist who also happened to win the lottery.”
