Gambler

    It seems that many people today have a propensity for gambling.  I’m not talking about those individuals who have the “disease” of gambling.  I’m speaking about your every day, ordinary human who would not even think of themselves as a gambler.  However, what is the basic definition of gambling? 

     We may think of the fist definition that comes to our minds: “to play games of chance for money or to bet on the outcome of certain situations.”  However, the term also has the meaning as to “take risky action in the hope of a desired results.”  Here is where many people, perhaps unknowingly, commit themselves to become the gambler!

     People simply have an obsession with gambling.  Las Vegas which at one time was the gambling capital of the world has now been eclipsed by Macau, China, where casinos with familiar names like MGM Grand, the Venetian, and Wynn pull in more money in 2 months than the casinos on the Strip of Las Vegas generate in a year!

     Yet there are now many other gambling opportunities within the United States that are beginning to dwarf the income of the Vegas strip.  Many States have riverboat casinos or Native American casinos as well as commercial casinos.  In many areas it has now become legal to have sports betting within States.  The desires for humans to gamble are continuing to become prolific wherever you look.

     What is truly unbelievable is that today amid the current pandemic every day, ordinary people are beginning to gamble with their lives!  Although many restrictions have been put into place with the hopes of “reopening” the various nations of the world for economic reasons, most people are not happy with these restrictions and have now begun to defy the requirements and take their lives into their own hands.  “Playing the odds” as it were with their lives and the lives of others!

     It is reaching the point where common sense no longer comes into play in the decisions that people are making.  If some were told they “cannot stand in the burning house”, they would reply: “A little heat doesn’t bother me.  I’m not effected by the smoke.  No one can tell me what to do with my life!”  These types of responses would make us want to believe that the person must have some type of mental illness to put themselves into such jeopardy.  Yet that is what many are desiring to do today!  And to add to that some are, in effect, saying: “You can come stand in the fire with me!”

     When it comes to the bottom line: We are a strange bunch of people!  But then again, we’re only human!

QUOTE TO CONSIDER

THOUGHTFUL GEM

"Any risk of your life 

or the life of another 

is unacceptable!"