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Part Three: Problems Within the Family If we work hard at making an honest living, then gambling is a terrible trap to be caught in. Bookies make their money simply because we do not know how to spend ours. If we have lost all of our money on gambling, then we will then turn to bookies for loans. If we cannot come up with money to repay our debt, then we will resort to criminal activities, corruption and/or prostitution in order to repay the debt. The idea of working in an honorable profession disappears from our mind as we bury ourselves deeper and deeper in the addiction of gambling or other roads to ruin. This addiction is difficult to break because our only agenda is to get back the money that we have lost. Gambling destroys our honesty because the more we gamble, the more deceit and suspicion arises. Gambling destroys our wisdom when we perceive that "money is GOD" which can provide us with everything. We forget that there are many things that money cannot buy. When we have money, we will spend it on useless things or lose it to more gambling. We become wasteful and do not know the true worth of money. We view money as only a piece of paper. Once we spend it, we crave more and more of it. This cycle continues around itself endlessly. Instead of using the wisdom we possess in a beneficial way, we use it to devise ways to cheat others. Gambling wastes our time because once we start, we can very easily forget everything else. Even when we win, we forget everything. When we lose, we try even harder to find ways to get our money back! Family Day By Day 86 Husbands and Wives