While I have never bought a ticket, nor dropped a quarter into a slot machine, nor drawn cards in Vegas, I have won the lottery. 

The bounty in my life and no doubt in yours is of incalculable worth. But just for fun, I'll tease it apart. 

Any of my organs would be worth six figures to a dying person, were such transactions legal. My eyes, my kidneys, my pancreas all keep me on this side of blindness, dialysis and diabetes. There have I won. 

The freedom to stroll through the woods after a snowfall, to buy strawberries and chocolate, to flip on music of any genre, to sleep in warmth and safety are all blessings denied to whole neighborhoods. Sprawling cities. Entire nations. There have I won. 

There are people whom I love and who love me. We have unearthed the means to serve one another, however fumbling and misfired. Even in the messiness of caring to the point of micromanaging, or retreating into the shadows of avoidance I am free to love. There have I won.