I don’t know that it is the lure of a big win that drives us back to gambling. Most of us gambled away so much over the years than nothing short of a major lottery win would win us back even a portion of what we have lost.
Seri’s betting sports, how much is he going to win even if he wins big? 10 times on his money? 20 times on his money? It’s nothing in the grand scheme of things.
I often found that I wanted to gamble just to gamble. Even to lose. I’d rather lose than not gamble at all. As a matter of fact I gambled many, many times when I was so exhausted that I literally had no chance of winning at poker; I gambled to lose. And I couldn’t stop until I lost everything I had available. It was like I wanted to punish myself for something.
Even a few weeks ago, after I stopped I wanted to gamble. I was tired and I knew I could only get about $200 online, nowhere near to give me a fighting chance of winning back what I had lost previous weeks. But then I said to myself ‘it doesn’t matter that I will lose for sure, I will have some fun that’s certain, and it will be worth the $200’
It is a minor miracle that I didn’t give in that time, I was so very close.
I’m trying to say we gamble for different reasons and we gamble for different reasons at different times. It’s not only the lure of winning big.
You have to see gambling from a different perspective Seri. Like those optical illusions. Once you see it for what it really is you can no longer be fooled.