Been there. Years ago got a large payout from motorcycle accident. It was fun for 6 months then I got bored.
On the other hand, only a couple of years back I was what many people consider to be rich (financially) through hard work.
Mind you, crawling out of bed every morning at 7am and crawling back in through the door of my 23-room house at 11 p.m every night, 7 day a week, I certainly didn't feel rich. I even had a cleaner 2 hours a day just to clean all the empty rooms we didn't use and would pay a mate to come around and cook for me!! My g/f made me make the choice in the end and now we live in a 1-bed house, skint. However, I'm alive and it wasn't heading that way. The thing is, I'm the wrong side of 40 now, been there, done that, had the flash cars and jobs and done done the travelling. Now I just want to settle and chill.
Makes me laugh at my mates who have been jealous in the past. They've all got grown-up families and memories of holidays etc. All I've got is memories of big lonely houses, posh cars only really used for work, not pleasure and work. I haven't even got any real money left to speak of.