One of the Seven Deadly Sins

GREED. Why are we greedy? Human's satisfactions is like the endless universe. Some people are disloyal, traitors, bribers, robbers and  gamblers. In order to satisfy the greed, people are endlessly attached to it. During Pre-calcus, our teacher, Mr. Lee, taught us the probability of winning in a gamble. He is our high school's dating 101 and phycology adviser. He told us the possible probabilities of losing and taught us a gambling game. I lost the gamble and have to write a blog about greed (gambling). Since casino is business, the owners use their brains to scrape the money from people's pockets. He told us to never gamble. It is very addictive and will ruin your life. In Saipan, in this small island, there are numerous of poker places. As Saipan's econonmy is going down the toilet, people are more desperate. Here's a lottery situation in US PowerBall. Five balls are picked out of 45 ball then one Powerball is picked out of 42. This gives the odd of 1 in 80,089,128. It has been said, "If you bought 100 tickets a week your entire adult life, from the age of 18 to 75, you'd have a 1 percent chance of winning the lottery". The win is small but you are tempted to proceed. Just once more.

What is the purpose of gambling? Gambling addictions will hurt your relatioships and responsibilities in your family and work. You'll end up in a deep financial catastrophe. But you can overcome it if you realize the problem. Gamblers will gamble when they are up or down, broke or flush, happy or depressed. They can not stay away from it and keep risking their life and money. Gambling changes people and their life. It might lead to illegal acts to gamble. For an example from '21' movie, MIT students 'count cards' in a gamble. Ben (the main character) gambles to get his money for Harvard Medical School which is worth $30,000. However after reaching more than the money for the school by "end justifies the mean," he still wants to stay in Las Vegas. He loses the focus of this real life. Later he loses all his money, MIT graduate and Harvard admin. However he restores them by realizing how he can live his life without gambling. It teaches a lesson that "You can't always get what you want."