Bobby

Three times the reward in minutes, the quickest ever. Life can be so much better, this way!! But ...
And so thought Bobby, The Gambler.

He judges how the terrain looks like and how others fare out. Some seem to be blessed by lady luck while others get rubbished to dust and feel cursed. While some choose to leave after having learnt their lesson, while some seem to indulge once again.

Bobby introspects and says “know your capabilities and strengths well.. Judge the terrain you’d fight in and the ones you would fight with. Sometimes the battle is within you and with you, make decisions based on a rationale, never on impulse or greed for more”

He looks around and sees no two people the same. Either in terms of they look or how they come across as even if they are all for the same purpose, to win. Some seem desperate while others some more. Some are trying their skill at an easier way of making bucks, while some are still learning the remaining few are bound by their addiction which is now a chronic habit owing to the adrenalin rush that he moment has to offer.

Bobby introspects and says “Everyone wants to win; everyone wants to be happy.
None want to loose; no one wants to be sad. Happiness and melancholy are subjective. What matters most is how badly you want. The path to it defines on the true creditability of the whether the moment turns out joyful or mournful.


A board nailed on the wall at an eye level. A periphery created around it with two men inside helping the others around to lay their bet and then either returning the double of what was put earlier or putting it all in their booty in case you lost your bet. The board has small squares in a pattern. The squares coloured in sex different colours. Red, black, blue, green, yellow and white. You choose your colour and the shooter throws the dart on the board. Three darts and the colours are six. Probability reduced by half. Bobby sees the trend of the colours that get repeated. Follow what the biggies in the game are placing their bet on. Follows intuition and sometimes the leader of the rooster and lays his bet..

Bobby introspects and says “ Why should someone else decide whether you win or loose. How we look for patterns and schema's to be able to make our win easy. Though we see only our colour on the board and we wish, the dart hits it, the shooter (who is not you) is focusing on his. A misjudgement on his part offers a chance for you to get rewarded. But is it the only way you’d want to be rewarded, ask yourself”

The dart leaves with force and hits the coloured square on the board that Bobby laid his bet on just like so many others and many more that didn’t. His money has doubled while half totally lost theirs.

Bobby introspects and says “Not everyone wins, some have to loose, today them; tomorrow it could be you. Always know why are you struggling, what shall mark the end of it, who are you struggling “

The game moves on, Bobby gets a double back. Some have left realising that they were at the terrain where they’d never be able to cope up and why they should be here. They have left realising the value of things they didn’t earlier. Or Bobby hopes so.

Bobby introspects and says “There are no shortcuts to getting of getting to your goal. Sometimes there are but you should know they always won’t exist. The quicker you’ve decided to get to a point the faster you’ve had to run missing out on the journey others are cherishing on their way. You make a choice.

The entire round of the next bet starts again, Bobby decides to place his bet on the colour that another person who seems confident and comes across as a great gambler chooses.
Dart's thrown. Neither his nor Bobby’s colour has been graced by the darts hit. Bobby has lost the bet. Emotions have changed and so has his view of everything around including him changed.

Bobby introspects and says “winning encourages and losing discourages; it is then you choose between the roads ahead; get up and go back to win or make an exit owing to the realisation that you don't belong there”

Bobby's heart is throbbing. He can never face defeat . He does not like to loose just like everyone else. Just like the small boy who only likes to bat but never ball. The euphoria has now turned into a extreme anger over something that he had no control over, the colour the dart would strike but he did have an option, Not to Play.

Bobby introspects and says "Every living minute life offers us a choice, an option! Some times its easy to make a decisions while the other times its a little more trying. The outcome arrived at is the aftermath of the decision made; Good yields and wrong yields a learning, how well we learn from it was sets one different from the other"

Bobby has his friend Guru who he has got with him to show him another world. The bet is laid again. Many more do the same too. Some praying, some hoping some seem confident of their lady luck with them while others like Bobby just lay the bet!

Bobby introspects and says "Put necessary thought where you have a control over the outcome owing to a calculative analysis, strategy and planning; Over analysis would always lead to paralysis; think and act; anymore thought to where it is not required would lead to clouding of rational thought"

Dart strikes Bobby's chosen colour. He has won again. He has risen above the earlier defeat. The sweet taste of coming back from dust to gold is indeed rewarding for The Great Gambler Bobby. The value of the price laid has doubled.

Bobby introspects and says " Rising above defeat is life; To take chances means to be ready to make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave and this makes you come back stronger”

GOODNIGHT SHOT
The time arrives when most leave, Bobby and Guru stay on! Its the goodnight shot as they call it. The last shot of the night and after this the curtains would fall and it'll be another day in Bobby's life and like is so many Else's.

He lays the bet with he has.

Bobby introspects and says "Do not fear risk. All exploration, all growth is calculated. Without challenge people cannot reach their higher selves. Only if we are willing to walk over the edge can we become winners”

The dart hits. the second dart hits again. Both darts have hit the colour booby chose for the Goodnight shot. The reward is now three times.. He is trembling

An Overwhelmed Bobby sees everything move around him and a certain stillness engulfs him. Many have lost what they wanted had doubled or even tripled just as is so happened with Bobby. They might have had debts to pay off, important work that they needed money for and much more. And Bobby had no reason to play. He just wanted to!

Bobby introspects and says "You will always have two choices in life, to be happy for your win or be submerged in others melancholy because they lost for your won; Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.”

Bobby leaves with his friend,Guru. They sit and Bobby thinks:

Life at every instance is a gamble. A gamble of decisions, choices and promises. It is not as ugly as we think it is.Its we who make it so.

Everyone wants to go to heaven and meet God, But no one wants to Die! Everyone wants to make money the quickest and be happy the longest, but we all wish to take the way up there which is the shortest

Its all unexpected in life, every moment. The thrill with no purpose should be condemned.

There can never be a shortcut to success, the quicker you get up there the lesser the chances you would stay there.

The Bible does warn us, however, to stay away from the love of money (1 Timothy 6:10; Hebrews 13:5). Scripture also encourages us to stay away from attempts to “get rich quick” (Proverbs 13:11; 23:5; Ecclesiastes 5:10).

Materialism is not the only purpose of life. Cars, bikes , shoes, fancy clothes, bags and much more are like web of seduction. the more you get into the web the more it wraps in it.


Everyone has a Bobby within them. Who is lazy and wants to get happy without working for it, wants to get rich faster, work lesser, get famous and so on. How much "bobby" within you is fed and encouraged the more you are ready to go the wrong path.

The reward of blood and sweat gives you a peaceful and rewarding sleep, the other way only restlessness. Be honest and true in life.

WORK HARD.BE HONEST..LIVE HAPPIER... DIE HAPPIER..

Bobby..

This story above is our experience at a gambling joint that we happened to be at out of curiosity. The place was called skill games. We entered wondering what skill games would be in there.And thus..

When asked for his name.. He called himself..

BOBBY.. They later called him BOBBY THE GAMBLER


WHO IS BOBBY ??
WHO IS BOBBY ??
WHO IS BOBBY ??
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Here's for all you loved ones ..
who wanted to know who is 'BOBBY'!










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With all my love and more.
Till my next stint with destiny and some more teaching that life would offer

for today
Bobby...