You better be serious with your life, plan as much as possible and stop gambling with it. I must say I was surprised that someone would say that life is a gamble, how? Maybe you want to say that life is uncertain, they are two different things. If you follow the right procedure, pray and get serious with your life, then you will get to make it and not gamble, which is different from those who are just gambling with their lives. As for gambling, it is indeed an opportunity but must be carefully pursued so that in search of the opportunity, the life of the person will not be in regret. I have pondered many times about the OP itself and I wonder why an adult should regret gambling if the adult himself is a smart and wise person. No one who engages in gambling smartly will ever get to regret it, after all, if they do not make money from it, they get to derive the fun and will not lose so much at the same time by being calculative and budgetary.
life is a gamble, that's very true and there is nothing different about this concept, like when you build a business, initially you are very sure that your business can be successful, but in fact your business cannot be successful within a year and you are constantly trying to build and promote your business. and in 3 years your business can be successful and become very big but in 4 years it turns out your business is bankrupt. well, this is what it means to live like a gamble, even if we live how long we will never know, the most important thing is just to survive and try to live.
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Well, I don't go for what the majority talk about even though I have seen many people like myself refuting the claim against what you are driving at, nonetheless, we should take it as we like, but as for me, life is never a gamble even though some people gamble with it. Like the narration you just made, fine, you might say that there are things of life that you are gambling about if it will work for you or not, but as similar as it is to what you term gamble, it's accurately called uncertainty, and truly, there is no certainty in life. Therefore, I would rather not gamble with my life but always try my luck even has grace and fate plays their lots in it and even as I do what I believe is right with it. Also, you will certainly not gamble with your life if from the beginning you have good and wise parents, who can cover up for you and guide you right till you become an adult. And by virtue of which you were well brought up and nurtured and you take it from there, following your good path in life as it should be, even as you brilliantly and creatively approach matters. Don't tell me such like that will be gambling with their lives, they are doing their lots reasonably even as they face the uncertainty (life).
There are paths you take in your life that will land you into nothing but success, are you telling me that gambling has a certain path to winning? I guess No, you can only succeed in life if you gamble it only if you are lucky. And like I used to say, in trading, in business, in career and many lots of them, people can also gamble, that is where the ill part that confuses you comes from, and that is where you are driving at if I must say. But should everyone follow that part where they are rather not sure and passionate about and waiting for success to come from it? I will not do that, even though it works for some people under luck, I want you to know that that's where the gambling in life comes from. But for those who are so serious with life and approach it carefully and wisely, they will rather continue to do what they want and that which is right in the bid for an expected end. While others will just be gambling with their lives and waiting for the outcome of what life tossed at them. The choice is ours, and as you can see, fine, people will gamble with their lives, but others will not gamble but "nip it in the bud" as it should, even as the future is uncertain, yet "they do what should be done and how it should be done". That's no gamble, my friend, yet the outcome could still be uncertain. There is a difference here.