No More Gambling
The problem with many people is that they want to make money but they don't want to go through the process. They don't want to suffer, but they want to hit the jackpot.
Gambling is one of the diseases that ail our day greatly. It even seems to have reduced recently compared to a few years back.
People just have this belief that this thing can change their lives overnight, as such they have positioned their hearts not to mind how many times they lose, believing that one day, they would somehow get at the bag.
Youths who are struggling to build their future and parents who are struggling to bring food to their tables are carried away by that deception and end up squandering the little that would have helped them grow.
I know a man in my place who doesn't miss a day without visiting the bet9ja shop. This is someone who lives hand to mouth with a wife and children.
The worst thing that can happen to anybody is to get addicted to anything that takes money out of you. One strategy this gambling company uses to lure people is to deceive them with little results or wins.
We being greedy, anytime we hear of huge wins like that or get to get one ourselves, we then get carried away and keep channeling our resources to them.
I told someone that except luck shines on you else before you win from gambling you must have spent up to the amount you won if not even more.
Considering all these disadvantages, I don't expect anyone with full sense to keep indulging in such acts. Gambling is a financial cancer, you can't grow if you are caught up in it.
So far, so good, it's just a few people whom I have seen that made huge wins from gambling and used the resources for something meaningful and not gambling again.
The amazing thing is that the money is like an accursed money, once it enters your hand and you don't channel it to something productive instantly, you won't know what you did with it.
I don't think such money is here to help, it's just a strategy to pull people back to nothing.
I was in a betting shop sometime last year to power my phone and a man came to bet and he was interacting with another person in the shop. I wasn't paying much attention to them because I was concentrating on my phone. But the man said something that caught my attention, "I am here to hustle again."
When I heard that, I turned and looked at him. "Hustle?" I asked myself, is he the one hustling or is it the gambling company that is hustling him?
My friend who works in the shop told me that for some time now the man has not been whining and I felt bad for him. That money he uses to bet would have been saved and invested into something productive.
Gamblers say "they take risks to be millionaires," but for me, that kind of risk is an unreasonable and uncalculated one. A risk that will land you at zero eventually is not a risk but destruction. You throw your money with 10% assurance that you may win and you tell me it's a risk? That's madness.
I know there are people who gamble responsibly and have the knowledge of what they are into. I am not insulting them or speaking ill of their source of income. But seriously, if you ask my opinion, I will say gambling should be banned.
If we are to take statistics, I am sure that in the end, we will discover that the rate at which people lose is far greater than the rate at which people win.
My friend told me that his cousin asked him to accompany him to the market to get some goods for their shop. On their way, his cousin said they should branch to a betting shop. When they arrive there, he squandered all the money betting virtual.
It was after all was spent that he recalled he had nothing to buy those goods. When he got home with nothing his Dad asked for the goods, and he had to lie that his purse fell on the road. His Dad got angry and beat the hell out of him.
If gambling is prohibited, people will stop wasting their time hoping for something that may not really transform their lives as they envisioned. They will begin to look for other means that are legitimate and reliable to do. Gambling contributes so much to how lazy some people have become.
The money they are wasting might also be an added advantage to them if they choose to save it, no matter how small, I am sure at the end of the day, it will serve a good purpose.