It's a Gamble! Gambling - Great,Gruesome, Gambling - Essential, Addictive, Destructive

It's a Gamble! Gambling - Great? Gruesome? Gambling - Essential, Addictive, Destructive
I'm used to thinking of gambling as horrible. Every day I hear stories of people destroying their
lives, and the well-being of their families, because they can't stop gambling. Everything goes. A
woman speaks from her prison cell: she turned to robbing banks to pay for her addiction. She
doesn't excuse herself. But she couldn't help herself. She wanted to be arrested. Despair.
I've been thinking about gambling differently this past while. Not "pure gambling" (lottery
tickets, casinos, online gambling, sbobet). But gambling as an essential feature of healthy,
hopeful living that takes us beyond the routine.
My partner and I are building a business. Now, that's a gamble - with our time, our lives. I'm also
building this site - Elsa's Creativity Emporium. Another huge gamble with time, energy,
creativity. Columbus sailed for America. His gamble: that he would end up in the Far East. He
didn't get was he was aiming for - but the gamble paid off for the Europeans.
Farmers plant seeds. The gamble: that the season will be good. Designers design The gamble:
that the design will find a market.
People fall in love, and decide to try to make a live with that person - one of the biggest gambles
in life.
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On the other hand, many people want a predictable salary. No gambling, please. So and so much
an hour. Anything else feels wrong, out of control, dangerous. How can anyone live like that,
they shudder and recoil.
An observation. Many people don't want to gamble with work time. They want steady
dependable pay. At the same time, they have a hugely developed urge, even an overwhelming
urge, to gamble.
In other words, quite a number of the same people who want a steady paycheck spend a huge
chunk of their everyday earnings on gambling!
"It's just for fun." "It's my right." "I have every right to do what I want with my money. I earned
it, after all. It's mine." "Everyone's entitled to have a good time every now and then. All those
hours I work. I deserve something."
So, though many people are entirely unable to consider working "sbobet.blog," (building a
business, doing creative projects that may well never pay), they gamble over and over in ways
that are set up to make the huge majority of people lose.
But most of the world does live "on a gamble" - or combining the gamble with as much certainty
as possible. Traditional gatherer-hunting societies for instance have the relative dependability of

gathering (which brings in about 90% of food) and the gamble on what is brought in through
hunting (10% of the average food supply, according to my reading). Even with the gathering
part, no year is like any other year. The steady dependable pay-off (salary, berries, etc.) is not the
norm.
And with that, back to gambling. I'm going to call the kind of gambling I'm used to recoiling
from "pure gambling" - in other words, one isn't gambling that the weather will cooperate with
one's efforts, one isn't trying to make a sale, one isn't trying to build a site or a business, one isn't
courting and hoping another will respond to us. "Pure gambling" - bingo, casinos, lotteries, slot
machines, computer games like minesweeper and so on. The goal is winning in a game stacked
against us, and the win builds nothing except the win. No book is written, no grain is harvested,
nothing is built.
In everyday gambling - which I'll call "part-of-life gambling", the pleasure of winning is part of
so many other things. It's part of building a life - gambling that our reaching out to someone will
pay off, gambling that our design will find a market, gambling that the move to another city
where there are supposed to be better jobs will lead to a better job. https://sbobet.blog/