Life is a Gamble

I’ve never quite understood the puritanical types when is comes to gambling. They immediately seem to lunge to the extremes of imagining that ‘everyone’ who places a bet, or plays on real money slots sites simply can’t help but bet on the toss of every coin and roll of every dice. Most people though I find operate by moderation, and gamble for fun, as a break from the hamster wheel that is their work week. If you start taking away the little pleasures in life from people exactly what do they have left! I’ve had some great times at the races and local casino with family and friends over the years.

Of course the most ironic thing about this selective attitude to outrage and indeed possible changes in law is that every event in life is a gamble of one kind of another. Going for a new job, entering a relationship, investing in shares, buying a house, the list goes on. Even the small stuff, like what mode of transport you choose to go to work. In fact I’d be hard pressed to find any aspect of life that couldn’t be viewed as having elements of weighing up the pros and cons and hoping for a specific outcome to it (as is the case with gambling and risk).

Of course these attitudes exist worldwide, whether you visit australian online casinos or are betting on the horses in the UK, there will always be someone who makes all kinds of silly assumptions based on the fact that you like an occasional flutter. Really though, that is entirely their problems and life is all about both achieving the right balance and not particularly paying too much mind to what every busybody going thinks about your hobbies or life.

Perhaps the most amusing aspect of this is that would it comes to the ‘big events’ like the Aintree Grand National these very same people will be having a ‘little wager’ with friends or will in fact place a bet, and so it makes their stance even less meaningless than it already was! If there is one bet that is bound to come in, in life it’s that there will always be someone with an ‘opinion’, that they should most likely keep to themselves!

 

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