Learn the First Conditional

So I read most comments and found out that the majority of us don’t believe firmly in the theory “hey, here have it, it’s free!”  : ), which drove me to ask a rather tricky question: What do you make of that saying “The best things in life are free! ? ” I’m sure you’ve heard it before.

wouldn’t winning a huge sum of money,being in a lavish cruiseship,having your name pulled out randomly out of a hat and instantly win a mouth-watering prize ,be considered among the best things that could ever occur in our lives?

Years ago one of my clients  fell pray to one  scam.She lost all her savings for a near future trip to Europe. She told me.: look ,I am an intelligent woman and I hold  a high-paid job, why this has happened to me?,    easy, I will tell you: your greediness  blinded your  sound discerment  from truth or fake   of what you were getting into.   To my surprise, she told me: yes , you are right , I was greedy, my blame.

I’m not entitled to anything free, if it happens I’ll be grateful , but firstly, I’ll be very surprised and wary

  : ). If you want to raise my eyebrows and flare my snooping instincts to its max, say the word “free”

As I approached the age of reason, my guardian and my older siblings started to be very blunt with me. The sugarcoating game is thrown out the window and they deem it was time for me to know some things about life, like: “there’s no Santa, there’s no monster in your closet”, and the most relevant to today’s lesson… “if something looks or sounds too good to be true, it probably is”..” as a matter of fact, there’s no probably , it’s a certainty, it is too good to be true, period”. That was a tough pill for a teen to swallow, but they were honest and it’s a quality I’ve always cherished, so I drunk the kool-aid without any conflict whatsoever.

My tough times in life so far are evidences that I’m not lucky at all. Unlucky is almost a personal characteristic, engraved in my inner-self very deeply. Anything that is given to the average Joe, Snoopy has to struggle and thrive to get it, even the nitty-gritty things, I had to earn them. My philosophy in life, my experiences and awareness are what always keep me from falling neck deep into the traps set by crooks and schemers. I’ve been in casinos; I’ve participated in a lot of raffles, but willingly, just out of curiosity and for the main purpose of trying something new and have fun in the process. I like to have firsthand experiences, my own taste at failure when the stakes aren’t too high if I can say, just to assess the experience and figure out whether or not I could benefit from it. ”fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice shame on me” yeah? I always try my best not to get outwitted twice…, I try.

To me, a word like contest can only make sense when its partakers are subject to either physical endurance or any display of rational abilities. If it’s all down to luck and any other trivial factors, it’s worthless and I won’t find it thrilling at all. (This is my personal opinion). Another thing about any competition I thought I’d mention is that it’ll be very unlikely for me to partake in a contest that doesn’t require any team-effort. Personal glory is not something I aim, and I mean that without any false honesty or scant humility. I like when a group of individual blend together to accomplish to overcome a challenge. Winning is more relevant when you can share it with a team-mate.

Any contest that is built upon the pillar of luck and unrealistic odd, individual glory it’s not for me to be part of. Also, any contest that allows a limitless number of participants will be too ambiguous for my liking, so that automatically includes  any online contest. I pity anybody that falls for those online schemes, they are so obvious and recurring, you shouldn’t be using a computer in the first place if you keep getting tricked by those crooks.

 For my Lottery addicts:   when you finally win, you’re only getting some of the money you’ve already spent; unless you win big, but what are the odds? It’s in the back of the ticket, think twice my friends.

I don’t like contests either as I don’t believe in sudden luck. I’m accustomed in work hard in order to earn something.

My luck are my fantastic family an friends and I can’t ask more. Money are important but, in my opinion, money don’t give happiness, there’s more in life.

AUL,  as you have said: there is a saying :easy comes easy go.  I  have heard of a case, this man  was very poor and the little money that he earned was pulling a cart and picking up  carton and aluminium soda cans from the garbage bins. One day he won  a lot of money playing lotto . His family dilapidated the fortune and now he is back on the street  working harder  doing the same stuff for a living.   

yeah , may be contests are interesting for someone but i agree with Kotlesya i dont believe sudden lucks such lottery and so on.And first of all it is sin to Islam.

u must gain something with difficulty with effort for being awarded for it

when person gain something easily he/she will lose it easily

i dont say i never watch contests no i watch but i watch which are related to brain.

I love contests.

they make us take challenge and be competetive ppl, they can be hard but we wine though we lose. we wine sefl confidence.

thx

one can’t get anything before time and more than luck… one will get as per what he deserve… 

Man can never be satisfied with what he has…. to have more he takes risk and gets into this kind of activities….if he wins then his hunger of having more increases and if he loses, he again tries to get back and in both the condition he becomes nil…...that’s y I don’t run after the money….

it is said....that “the more one has, the more he wants…instead of filling the vaccum, it produces emptiness”

Lesya ,hello.   Your post  shed a lot of light , when we look at the odds  on the back of the ticket  ,only a fool would want to  buy it.    

5 years ago people in my country had a tiny belief in the gainings through the Lottery tickets, but now nobody wants to buy them, because there is 1:1 000 000 000 000 000 etc that you will win something.   The tickets are still in sale, waiting for another fool :)

   nothing comes easy in this world.  If these contest and cheaters  thrive is because  they know  that many people are an easy target (I was one of them) I could only have accomplished my dreams by working hard .Lottery tickets  and  casinos   I have had my shared, and  always     lost my hard-earned money  believing  that I could struck it rich overnight.  heheheheh

I’m not a gambler. The games of chance don’t excite me. I have never took, never take and will never take a part in the contests.

I don’t believe in the sudden fortune  and in the sudden luck.

The contests which require luck are absurd on my opinion. They just waste your time.

Have you heard phrase like that : “Free cheese is only in the mousetrap” ? It is the occassion to use it today.

We call such games “lohotron” (лохотрон) in Russian . It means the game for suckers 

No…I never entered a contest because it seems to be scam, I think….

yeachhh contest is one of improving our talent…

Julito is right. It’s not in Argentina only, the same in Turkey and I am sure it’s the same everywhere. 

Let’s think clearly, why do people give us so much money for free??? They like us? Are they charities? Nooo..They are not trying to make us win, they are trying to win. 

Oh this is… I think this is one of the cheaper ways to improve English, just 5 dollars per month. Nice picture Buttafly :)

Why is this blog not comented? I found it interesting! =(

Well, this kind of contests are the easier way to get money from lazy people, people who wants to be rich making no effort.

Winning  these contests are as finding a needle in a haystack.

You will  have a nice cruise ship, a nice car, and too much money working hard, being pacient and helping other people. By this way God gives you all you need.

Don´t fall in the scam! If some request comes to you, just say: Oh yea baby, what else can i do for you cheater?