"I can bet you on that!" (used just to emphasize their point and having no balls to actual bet)
"Wanna bet?"
"I bet you......................."
I hear these words often but I never used them myself. I had never done betting in my life until few days ago. I thought gambling is "bad". Although the concept of "nothing good, nothing bad" runs deep in my thought process, but somehow I never gambled. May be, it was because of fear of losing. May be it was my childhood conditioning. I hated playing cards and luck based games.
Few days back, while IPL was going on, a thought struck me. I wondered, 'How would I know how good or bad my luck is until I bet?' I thought of share market but that isn't pure luck. It involves knowledge too and comparatively more money than usual friendly betting. I don't watch cricket at all, so I thought of betting randomly. Based on a meager information, I bet 20 bucks on Mumbai Indians. Yes, just 20 bucks with few friends. I just wanted to test my luck. Mumbai Indians won, I won.
Next match, I again struck a deal. 50 bucks this time with another friend. Something more happened that day. I thought of calculating omens or signals from the universe to speculate whether I'll win or lose. I was in office and it began raining cats and dogs. It was a storm too. The rain didn't seem like halting at all. I had to leave the office and thought it's a bad omen because I didn't want to get wet in the rain.
As I left the office, the rain stopped. It was a cool breeze with a slight drizzle. It was soothing. A seemingly bad omen got converted into a good one. In a flash, I remembered, 'I kept my clothes on the terrace! What if they flew away? Oh no, it's a bad omen'.
As I reached my terrace, my clothes were not on the wire where I hung them. They had fallen down and because of rain, they got wet and heavy, so they didn't fly. Rain saved so many clothes of mine. A bad omen was converted into a good omen. Now I was sure Mumbai Indians will win.
I decided to watch the match. A bad start for Mumbai Indians. Sachin got caught. They had a poor run rate initially. But I noticed, Mumbai was playing on luck. Royal Challengers Bangalore had a bad time fielding. Mumbai Indians won. I won the bet. 50 bucks didn't matter. What mattered was that I learnt, to some extent, how to read omens and how to interpret them.
I still have a lot more to learn. I would want to bet everyday because I want to learn to read omens for my little advantage in this big world. And yeah, you might carry good luck or bad luck and never even know about it until you bet. Wanna bet?
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