What do alarms and problem gambling have in common?
Daily, I am working to silence the alarms going off around me alerting me to a problem. No longer is that first alarm a couple of tickets on pay-day, now it’s waiting for pay-day because I know this time I’ll get lucky and I’ll stop right after I hit it big this one time. The second alarm is no longer a caution that I’m ahead but an annoying reminder that I am in the hole. The third alarm is so loud and signals that I’m late, late on paying my overdue bills but I’m determined that with this borrowed $20 I’ll pay off everything when I hit the jackpot, but I am out of time.