Gambling

A croupier was writing about himself in a book,
“He watched their faces as they lost. ‘Hour after hour, night after night. Relentlessly. He questioned the conventional wisdom that gamblers are self-destructive. He had to come to believe that in reality they want to destroy everyone else. Their families, loved ones, everyone. Fuck over the whole world. Without emotion, he watched them go.”

That makes sense that why people gamble. Gambling is not about money at all. It is about not facing the reality, ignoring the odds.

I don’t gamble, I never bet on anything in my life. One of my friend, close friend in Uni, he always bets if someone doesn’t agree with him in something! When we were in the first year, he bet with his 2 roommates that if he can eat 20 boiled eggs in 40 minutes without drinking water or any kind of liquid, those roommates will pay for the eggs and will give him 200 taka. 100 each. He won. I was there at that time after class. It was funny with a lot of excitement. Later they all had a delicious dinner with that 200 taka on the next day hahaha.

World cup cricket going on now. here some young boys bets in cricket matches that who will win. It’s certainly not kind of professional gambling. But it sows the seed of gambling in mind. And someday it becomes an unbreakable addiction.

Is not lottery a kind of gambling? yes I think it is. I don’t buy lottery, I never did. Yes there is a chance, some people will win. But what’s the ? one out of one million? I never heard of anybody become wealthy by winning a lottery.

I promise to myself, I will never gamble and I will never bet on anything in my life.