How often does a gambling path lead to happiness?

If you do it, there is hope. Easy money is what people always hope for when they gamble. You have heard of people striking it rich with some kind of gamble and it does happen to one in a billion people. (In an earlier post, I had written about a man from Kodiang, Kedah who struck it rich in a draw and lost everything in less than a year.) Of course, everyone hopes he/she would be the lucky one to win. Not just win but change forever and get to move into the path of wealth.

One of my relatives is very fond of betting on certain numbers being drawn to win. She has won small amounts once in a long while. I believe she has lost more than what she had won. Once when she cried out in disappointment at not having got the winning numbers, I told her that if she were to keep all the money she had placed on those bets in a box, she could take that accumulated sum out after a year and it would be similar to having some prize money once a year. Unfortunately, of course, there was no thrill, no flow of adrenaline which betting and the expectation of a win could give.

Fortunately, when bets are small, the lost would be minimal and so could not only cause no harm but provide some excitement. However, there are gamblers who play big stakes with money they could not afford to lose. Of course, most of them do lose and they have to turn to money-lenders to hide the cost of their gambling habit from other members of their family or to enable them to survive.

Some of the gamblers are women and gambling women are the worst as in their weakness, unlike the men, they have something they can sell for money. Yes, there have been women who gave sex in exchange for cancellation of debts when the sum owed exceeded a certain amount. They resort to such ways to sustain their gambling habit.
One thing leads to another and soon either they suffer from some kind of unspeakable disease or their self esteem deteriorates together with their reputation and respect.
That does mean the gambling men escape from problems. When money is owed, lenders will use all means to get what is owed. Those gambling men and their family members could be threatened with harm until such money is recovered. The gamblers might flee the scene leaving other family members to endure the wrath of the money lenders. Imagine the amount of problems that gambling could bring.

Surely, we realise the risks of lost is greater than gain in any gambling. If the ordinary men can win at gambling who would spend a fortune building casinos for them to withdraw money from?