Greetings, friends of God!
How is everyone doing today? I hope all are doing well. Yes, because God is alive, you will face your tomorrow with ease and happiness and fulfill your purpose by making the right choice and the right game that will build your cognitive and make you a strategic thinker in all ways.
I heard about gambling starting from my childhood days till today people are still engaging in this game that has never changed lives before. Gambling consists of different games that risk money and with the expectations that it would bring money but unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. Gambling is by luck or chance depending on the type you are into. It is like a devil, that deceives. It is designed in such a way that entices but has hidden motives, that if you are not skillful in it, you can't see the results.
Furthermore, I got to understand that, gambling has been in centuries, meaning it existed before I was formed in my mother's womb. Fortunately, I grew up and heard and saw it with my close relative who happens to be my uncle from my paternal background. My uncle got addicted to gambling, to the point of selling his land to play gambling. It was so pathetic, and it drained him, lost his family, and caused him to become mentally ill, leading to his death. He was a gambler from the time he got introduced to it till its departure on earth.
He didn't fulfill his purpose on earth, and I can proudly say that gambling ruins lives and destinies.
Gambling has not changed people's lives since I came here. It has been destroying people's destinies, losing properties, destroying good relationships, and great financial loss.
My friend once shared with me how he gambled as a student at the start of the university. Each day he left the house to school, he wouldn't reach school, but on his way, he would call at the gambling center and make sure he played small before he reached school. At times, he would leave the house with his parents, knowing that his son was in school, but they didn't know that he had not gone to school but at the gambling center betting. He became so addicted to it that he almost loosened interest in his academic pursuit. He had a carryover course in his year 1 because of gambling.
Nevertheless, before this gambling was live, they used to have a particular sport they met, but now you can stay in the comfort of your house and gamble through the use of the app on your mobile phone.
However, even if I have not joined the gambling game before, from the physical and financial appearance of the gamblers, there is no hope and future for many people involved in that act or activity. I say, such an act shouldn't be legalized in our country. It has the power to ruin life at the twinkle of the eyes.
Overall, gambling is a flattery, deceptive, and bad habit that can kill every aspect of human life. If there is a way they can put a stop to it, it would be better.
Thank you for reading.
This post is in response to the #Hivelearners featured contest, week 138 edition 3
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