He Loves His Life The Way It Is.

Ali Alvarez had an ex that used to play lottery scratch cards every week. Most weeks she lost. Some weeks she won a few bucks. But it got him thinking about the whole lottery "thing" -- getting your hopes high for a week, dreaming, escaping, and then being let down.

Since this happens to him on a daily basis WITHOUT the lottery's help, he found the whole thing rather funny. So as an experiment, he started buying scratch cards and not scratching them. It made his ex a little crazy (maybe that's why she is an ex?). When he showed the cards to other people it made them a little crazy too.

So, he started a project. Simply titled: I LOVE MY LIFE THE WAY IT IS, it is a mass collection of unscratched lottery tickets, and a small statement that says a lot of things to a lot of different people.

I love it.