Quote from: KTChampions on June 19, 2024, 10:49:37 PM

Quote from: Odohu on June 19, 2024, 06:06:46 PM

I strongly feel that making gambling a hobby is not too fine because it could easily become addiction when made a hobby. One of my ways of handling losses is to stay away for some times, assuming I made gambling a hobby, there is no way it would have be easy for me to stay away for sometimes. Today I played some rounds in gates of Olympus and I made some decent wins before I entered series of losses which made me take a break. This flexility will not be possible if gambling was a hobby

Any hobby is an addiction (otherwise why would a person voluntarily engage in it?) and can become a severe form of addiction that will negatively affect a person. For example, computer games and collecting in them. I work in this field and I see with my own eyes how people pay a lot of money to own virtual items. And to be honest, this even affects me - I’m starting to value some virtual things more than money. So you need to understand that any activity can be dangerous if it turns into a severe form of addiction, and gambling is not much different from other activities.

Well spoken, addiction brings about overindulgence into something and is not so good no matter how positive your object of engagement is. We need to strike a balance in our involvements and not end up at loss from not prioritizing other necessities owing to our mindless addictions. I have been addicted to my computer because of my kind of work. I thought it was normal and never had time for social activities nor communicating with friends and loved ones for a considerable length of time. A friend pointed out to me on one occasion that I valued my PC more than life and my living depends on it to the extent that someone might even die beside me and I wouldn't notice.

That statement made me understand how my addiction has distanced me from people, even those I loved, I also lost my girlfriend in the process when in my mind, I was securing the future, little did it occur to me that I was destroying the present and possible future with my dispensation. Over addiction even to the right course, is still very detrimental. I learned the hard way.