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Daily Cascade #1105005 added January 3, 2026 at 12:11pm Restrictions: None
On Lottery Games and Such
Prompt:
“Luck is not as random as you think. Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.”
Vera Nazarian
Do you buy lottery tickets or the scratch off cards? Do you wait for the large pot or do you buy them weekly like clock work? Would you consider lottery tickets as gambling?
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I don't buy lottery tickets or scratch off any cards, although I have nothing against all that. I think of such stuff as not necessarily gambling, but maybe, banking on false hopes, and thus, a waste of time. Then, suppose I did win a few million that way. I can't even begin to imagine its negative results. With the taxes, false friends, scammers--as if not enough of them call me nowadays--and the amount of work and worry about how to spend or invest that lot. I'm just too old for all that.
On the other hand, I congratulate those who have won and who will win and hope everyone is happy with their choices. I am not discouraging anyone, but saying that this is not for me.
Come to think of it, this craze for lottery tickets and such isn't only about money. It may have something to do with the wish to imagine some control in our uncontrollable world. A lottery ticket or any other such game offers a strange comfort, a fleeting control of a comfort, that everyone else is equally powerless before the last draw.
Also, since chance games offer uncertainty in a safe, contained way, some brains like the anticipation and the suspense more than the reward at the end. Possibly, such emotional experiences are good for some people, I suppose. Just maybe, the fantasy itself may be worth more than the actual win.
After all, a lottery ticket may mean hope, imagination, rebellion against routine, and that wish or sense that life can change in a single moment. When all is said and done, the idea is, the future isn't fully written yet.
All this brings to my mind an old song, the one Frank Sinatra crooned in Luck Be a Lady, "They call you Lady Luck // But there is room for doubt..."
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