All you need is a little bit of luck. Hey, you never know. Take a chance. Get in the game… if any of these sound familiar, these are just some of the advertising materials used by lotteries that you might have heard over the past few years, beckoning to you, encouraging you to give the game a chance, with words that seem to echo and say aloud what is in your mind and in your heart whenever news is broken of a mounting, rather unfathomable new lottery prize.
‘Chances’ are, you are one of the millions over millions of people in the world who would be interested in striking it rich quick, improving your life and that of your loved ones’, being able to afford to buy or do anything you can imagine ever wanting, of simply being financially secure for the rest of your life, most especially in this day and age. The news is plagued by pundit after pundit saying that our lives are harder than that of our parents’, that the age at which we can comfortably retire is getting pushed further and further back, that job security is low and that unemployment rates are high. That the economic future is not looking very bright.
Put these two elements together—the desire for riches and the bleak economic outlook—and you have what amounts to the perfect recipe for lottery participation and gambling in general. Well, almost perfect, the missing ingredient is a dash of hope: the next winner could be you. It is not just about desire and need but also the belief in the possibility of winning. That the next random number, with just the right quick pick, the next hand, the next turn of the wheel, any of it, could be your chance to make all of your dreams come true.
It is a universal confluence of things just being right: being in the right race, plus the right place, plus the right time. It could be any place, at any time. All you have to do is try, and it does not really cost too much to try, once in awhile. The next winner really could be you… That is, if winning is all just a matter of luck. There are people who seemed to have been the right people, playing the right game, at the right time, at the right place… several times! Which begs the question—is winning these games (and therefore striking it rich quickly) just a matter of luck and the coming together of the factors mentioned above? Or has someone broken the elusive code of making it big in the gambling world? Maybe it’s not about being at the right place at the right time playing the right game. Maybe you’re supposed to be the right person—with particular habits and knowledge that can give you an edge in the game.
