Sports Betting is taking over the young minds in my country

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Over here in my country, young people are always finding new ways to get rich quicker. One of the ways many young people are involved in my country is sports betting or gambling and this is what I will be talking about in this post. For some reasons, people believe that you can get rich very quick with betting…. I’m not denying the fact that you can get rich with sports betting though but to be real, you have to be very lucky in order to get rich from betting/gambling.

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In my country, sports betting has become a normal thing especially for the youth, who should be finding proper ways to make a living. What surprises me most is that, most students are involved in the sports betting and gambling, the little money sent to them for upkeep, they tend to spend it all on gambling/betting. As I have said already, it has become something like a normal habit and even ladies tend to find themselves in this industry.

From experiences of my friends, I don’t think sports betting is a good habit people should take. I can remember when I was in high school, I had this friend who was so much into sports betting, I could say that guy was having a gambling addiction. He went so far in gambling and even one time, he used his tuition fee to placed a bet. He wasn’t lucky, he lost the money and was getting frustrated. We advise him a lot but he wouldn’t just listen, fortunately he was able to gather some courage and talk to his parents about it.

At the university, I have realized even more people are going into sports betting. Imagine going to football centers to watch a match and all you can see if people holding their phones, and bet websites/apps are opened all over. They are monitoring their bet tickets as the match is ongoing. At the end of the day, maybe the person hasn’t had some good food to eat but he/she prefers to put the little money he has into sports betting, with the hopes of winning even more money.

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In my school, it very normal for the guys to sit together and share bet tickets/codes to each other but you won’t see them talking to each other on how to improve their lives positively with good ideas and work opportunities.

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I have met so many people out there who are actually battling with betting/gambling addiction. Sometimes what actually keeps their hopes alive of making it through gambling and betting is the small winnings they get from it. The very sad part is that, some people don’t even get any winnings but yet they are so motivated and desperate, holding on to the hope that one day, they’ll hit the jackpot and become rich.

Also, I have heard some people talk about how rich they have become through this sports betting stuff and all I can say is that, this is just one of the reasons people are turning towards betting. I mean who doesn’t want to get rich quick…? I don’t have any bad blood against betting, I just hoped people would manage their risk a little and not get addicted to it. Sports betting isn’t for everybody, and I think if people realized that fact there would me less young people in betting/gambling.

One thing I’ve also realized is that young people of these days, we are too lazy to find legit work opportunities that we can earn from. Instead we always want the easy way or short cut, but we don’t take in mind that “nothing good comes easy”. There are so many ways one can earn online, we just have to explore and be willing to put in the efforts.

From my personal opinion, I think sports betting and gambling is doing a lot of harm to the young people of the country and we need to sit up and work hard. We need to find legit ways to make money, we should avoid these types of things if we really want to be successful people.

Thank you guys for reading this space and I hope to see you in the next one. Leave your thoughts and comments what you think about sports betting and gambling.