Sometimes you win.  Sometimes you don’t.  Life is a gamble.  There are no sure bets.  I figure it just depends on how much you are willing to put into something to see if there is anything that you get out of it.  Those of you that know me personally, know that I love to gamble; but I am also not willing to risk more than I am prepared to lose (so is that really a gamble?).   

Blogging to me is like a slot machine: I never know on any given day if I am going to hit the jackpot of readers or not (I do look at that Stats page a lot).  But, no matter what, I have fun blogging, so for me, it’s a win.   It takes a considerable amount of time and energy to blog.  I have to spend time thinking about what to blog about.  I worry what will make a good read.  What is important to say, and how to say it.  Should I do it this way, or that way?  Should I take a chance that people are going to read what I wrote?  That I might make some people: think, smile, pass-me-by, ‘Like’ me?  Do I care enough? or too much?  What if they hate me?  What if I do all this work and no one reads it?  In the end, I win though, because I have a great time doing it. 

“Gambling has been ubiquitous in human history, and the gambling impulse has served us well. It is part of “the adventurer within us”– that part of ourselves which lusts for change, the wooing of the unknown, chance, danger, all that is new. It sends us to both the gaming tables and the moon, the laboratory and the numbers man. It is part of what makes us human.

…Studies show that, contrary to popular belief, gambling is by and large beneficial to the gambler and increases rather than decreases his efficiency. It is beneficial in that it stimulates, offers hope, allows decision making, and, in many cases, provides the gambler with “peak experience,” that godlike feeling when all of one’s physical and emotional senses are “go.”” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/gamble/procon/virtues.html

Recent Wins!!!!

When I lived in the State of Connecticut it’s gambling motto was: “You Can’t Win, If You Don’t Play.”  That is kind of my motto too.  Every time I rescue an animal and bring it into my home, it is a gamble.  Will they fit, will they create havoc, and with some, will they even survive the night?  This has given me some of the greatest joys, but also, some deep sadness.  I admit it: I am a Gambler.

Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤