Try and spend it, and you either have to pay a big capital gains tax, or you're one of those causing the market to drop. I know this is the wrong attitude. Everything you get, you have to pay for. Over the years I have found this to be mostly true not only about money, but life in general. Good days are balanced by bad ones and bad ones by good ones.
Life has sweetness, but it also can be sour.
You make money, but you sometimes have to lose it. Brokers call this general trend the business cycle and it seems to be as constant as my friends and relatives' certainty that they've hit the jackpot. The big problem is the cycle, while predictable, is not all that predictable and therein lies the problem. You're just never sure whether you're ahead of the wave or behind it. Of course, none of this homey philosophy is going to make you feel good if you've lost big in the market.