Introduction
What is hope? Means having a positive believe about the future of any particular thing, or just believing that something good will happen in the future and also believing that it's possible. Some people will call it a 50/50 mindset.
I will use lottery as my case study, although in lottery I will say it's not 50/50 mindset as people do say it is. Most people believe that lottery is the combination of logic and luck that's why they are always involved in it everyday. Even without wining, here is when hope comes in, they keep on believing that one day their logic will meet with their luck and they become rich.
Many people believes in luck because it gives them hope of a brighter future. It makes the feel that they can just get lucky one day and rest is story. If they imagine luck, they believe that one that luck will find them and all their problems will be over. This hope makes them feel better everytime no matter the situation they find themselves. They feel better and relaxed on fixing the main issue in their life. Lottery really gives them the hope of a better life. These people fail to understand that the chance of winning lottery is very low, According to greenlight.com the chance of winning a lottery is 1 of 38 chance of winning.
We can take an example of a typical 6/49 lottery, in which an individual has to choose 6 numbers out of 49, the chances of a person picking the exact six numbers correctly are approximately 1 in 13.9 million. The reason for this is that the sequence of the numbers drawn is of no importance, thus it is a combination issue in probability theory. greenlight.com
The one person that win out of 13.9 million, will be celebrated as a winner while others will continue hoping that one day they will be like that one person. These makes them remember the story of winners and not losers, using the winners story to feed themselves that one day their luck will find them.
In reality successful people depends on logic not luck. According to Investopedia a man is likely to be struck by lightning than win a lottery (this may be fun right) but that shows the level of no-win-for-you idea in lottery. Lottery were meant to favour the rich, I mean the owners of the company not the people playing it. It was design to favour the owners not the poor players.
Conclusion: It's not bad for someone to have hope, it depends on where your hope is. A person can have hope in his business, lottery, his job or anything he feels will bring a better future. When you rely on luck it turns to a problem and full of disappointment. Logic and hardwork is the sure way to success, it makes you see the gradual process of your life moving to a brighter future.
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