STOP gambling

GOODBYE GAMBLING

fragments from the book based on a true story

by Dejan Stankovic

If you’re reading this book, chances are you’ve felt gambling’s bittersweet taste, and somewhere inside you, the struggle between good and evil, between life and death, has begun.  I know you’re weak, and unsure of your ultimate success, but don’t worry.  Deep down, everything that’s happening to you is the same as what I endured while I was a pathological gambler, and there are many others like me who’ve gone through the same things and managed to slay the invisible monster known as Gambling.

Maybe you don’t think you’re a gambler, but as they say “time will tell.”  The longer you deceive yourself, the higher the price you’ll pay.  The price is not a sum of money, but the weight of the albatross(es) around your neck that will only grow heavier with time, and prove difficult to live with, not to mention the suffering of your parents, brothers, sisters, children…

Your behavior opens a door through which restlessness, fear, and later, illness will come, uninvited, for what’s theirs, i.e. yours.  Don’t allow yourself to fall into the trap, but if it has already begun to close in around you, get out as quickly as you can.  As the saying goes: whether the stone hits the pitcher or the pitcher hits the stone, it’s going to be bad for the pitcher.  However intelligent you may be, however different you think you are from everyone else, please understand that in the gambling machinery, you’re just one of the slaves, just one in a series of losers.  Understand that you are nothing.

It’s not my intention to reason with you, or convince you to stop.  I only want to present an offer of life on two separate counters.  You chose which one you prefer.

If you want to deceive and owe, to be banished because of money as the interest piles up… if you’d rather be worry about the game than take a walk with your girlfriend… if winning is more precious to you than your mother’s laughter… make that choice.  Just know that you’re sick.  Don’t get angry, but things need to be called by their proper names.  It’s not a lifestyle, it’s a DISEASE.

I have faith in your intelligence, and that you’ll at least admit that I’m right.  Get into a fight with that infernal industry and turn your back on it.  Then you’ll look into life and see everything you haven’t seen until now.  Believe that until this point, you’d been in the dark.  I think you deserve a chance.  What about you?

Though the struggle is difficult, you’ll begin to see quickly, and in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king!!!

That’s enough now!