Blessing In Disguise

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I've seen what gambling has done to people and believe me when I say it's nothing good. The scary thing is that if gambling had gone a little bit right for me, I probably wouldn't just have seen what gambling does to people, but would have experienced it firsthand.

Some years ago, I had wanted to get a new phone because my current phone at the time was trash. The phone could only browse on 2g network, so I needed to change it fast. The job I was doing at the time was nothing to write home about either, I needed to save for about four months just to get the type of phone I wanted if I was depending on my salary alone and that was if I didn't touch a penny on it and saved all of it, which was next to impossible.

So I decided to look for another way to get the money for the phone. A more faster and easier way, I had said to myself. What I would do back then was that whenever I was paid my salary, I would use all of it,or almost all of it to play sport betting, hoping to double the money or maybe even triple it if I was feeling lucky that day.

I had tried that with my first two salaries and each time I did that, I had left more broke than when I had started, so I finally talked some sense into myself. I had told myself that it was better I saved the salary even though it will take a much longer time to accomplish my goal, rather than to keep on wasting it on fruitless gambling.

Luckily for me, I had taken my own advise and few months later, I had gotten a better phone for myself. And that was my first step in quitting sport betting.

Whenever I think of that story, it always reminds me that maybe indeed, every disappointment is a blessing in disguise because who knows what would have happened to me if those gambling had paid off and I got the phone I had wanted, I probably would be a pro gambler and would be very addicted to gambling. And getting addicted to anything is definitely not a good thing and will eventually lead to trouble.

So yeah, maybe not all disappointments are bad, some are good.