I Could be Overthinking Things Again

This might be me exaggerating things, but I honestly feel like there are certain things we innocently do as kids, that sometimes do come back to haunt us.

I had gone to church today being Sunday and it was our Thanksgiving service. What that meant was that the entire church was decorated with a lot of things, one of those things being balloons, lots of balloons.

_{photo by Diya Pokharel}

Looking at those balloons and the little kids in church trying to take them, I couldn't help myself but remember my time as a kid, how I would beg my parents to give me money so that I could go buy a balloon for myself.

But you see, back then when you wanted to buy a balloon, you don't just walk into a shop, hand them money and expect them to give you what you wanted, you had to sort of gamble for it.

What I meant was that when you get to the shop and tell them what you wanted to buy, you would be handed a paper where you get to randomly pick a number, the balloon hanging at whatever number you chose will then be handed to you.

The downside to this was that most people ended up selecting the number with tiny balloons which nobody wants, and what that does is that we go back to our parents to ask for more money so that we can keep trying, in order to win big. And that is why I basically call it gambling, even though to the lame man, it just kids having fun.

And although this isn't dangerous at first, but then that kid grows up a bit and gets introduced to sport betting, something he normally would have walked away from the first time he was introduced to it, but just because it kinda feels familiar to trying to win a bigger balloon, he doesn't get scared of it because he's used to that kind of thing, trying to win big.

And then he decides to play his first bet, just to try it out and see how it goes. But then, just like he did with those balloons, he just might keep on going back to the betting shop, hoping that he doesn't leave with something small, and that's how he gets hooked.

Now I'm not saying these things are accurate, and I know that as kids, we enjoyed trying to win those balloons, but maybe it's time to stop things like that, how about they stop making it kids gamble for it and just sell it to them straight.