We all associate gambling with fun, excitement, and enjoyment
There is a reason why casinos are brightly lit and has fast paced music. The overall idea of gambling should be energetic and exhilarating. Well, in my country, you might find gambling in a less thrilling environment such as a funeral.
Yes, it is very common in my country that whenever there is a funeral there will be people playing cards and gambling against each other.
I don’t know if this is common in other countries but I never really thought twice of the fact that gambling, which is usually associated with time for pleasure, can be found in a place that is so grievous.
I researched just now and found that some gamblers do in fact use gambling as a form of escape from their real life. Which is why you might find a lot of people just recently went through a divorce or death of a loved one gambling. I guess this is why there are always people gambling in funerals. Obviously over time I think it just became more of a tradition rather than an actual act of escape from mourning.
Personally I don’t think it’s a good idea to use gambling as a coping mechanism especially that your emotions will be the one driving your decisions and that almost never end well. It’s fine sometimes but I find that dealing with your emotions especially negative ones can be much helpful than turning into potentially harmful vices.
But What about you? Do you also use gambling to escape from stress of the real world?
It is absurd to imagine that someone or a group of people will have the mental energy to even engage themselves in gambling in a place where some persons are wailing and morning for their lost loved one, not to speak ill of your country since I believe every country of the world do have some kind of absurd tradition, but this is way out of the line if you ask me, but then, tradition is tradition I believe.
To me and for me, gambling can never be or act as an effective means of escape for life and reality, even if there is some excitements that comes from gambling that helps the gambler forget what is going on around his or her life, this is only but for a while and only as long as the game last, no body can sit on the gambling table, or have a gadget to his or her face for an entire 12 hours not to talk of 24 hours.
So, as soon as one gets up that table, or drops that gadget, all the problems he or she tried to use gambling to forget will come streaming back into his head.
So, at the end of the day, gambling is like a temporarily solution to such problems, one can never really run away from his or her problems, the best way out is to face it and deal with it.
