Today I listened the story of a man called Joe in one of podcasts. It’s about ordinary day of that man and life story of him. He likes gambling, rather his life is based on gambling. Las Vegas is the city of gamblers and it is difficult to say whether he is taxi driver or gambler. He prefers to work at nights and 5 days a week and he earns more or less $2000 per day which makes $10000 per week and $500.000 per year. However he has almost nothing and he starts his every single day around $30. He divorced and his daughter lives in another country due to his addiction to gambling.
I have never gambled in casino and I don’t know how people feel during and after game. What are the motives that encourage them to gamble? Money, passion, ambition, and winning feeling are examples of those motives. Sometimes I think is there any other situation that we earn or lose a lot of money in a short period of time called in minutes. You can earn thousands or even millions in one night or you can lose your money or house in another night. Actually people don’t lose only their money or house; they also lose their families, futures, social environments. It is like a drug which makes people be addicted and people might be impatient when gambling is concerned. It is difficult to understand choices, lifestyles and decisions of gamblers for people who haven’t gambled in their lives. Selling own house might be thought madness but gamblers can do it.
Their perceptions and interpretations of life are totally different from regular people. Some problems or events which are thought terrible by some people can be thought reasonable by people gambling. I wish I could understand their way of thinking, impressions, and mentality.
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