The Research Center for the People and the Press has parsed out a grid of what Americans think about the past 10 years, and what they are thinking about the next 10, based on interviews the Pew folks conducted with 700-plus adults.
They say that, based on those interviews, most of you didn’t like the last ten years, but you’re hopeful that the next ten years will be better. Hmmmm. They also say that these 700-plus people liked the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s better than the past ten years. I’m thinking that folks like the past better the further they get from it. And I’ve noticed that no matter how good some people have it, they’ll find something to complain about, and no matter what hits some others, they bounce back.
So here we are, pausing on the edge of the next decade, squinting into an opaque future, and looking back on a past that is fast becoming an arguable fiction, a point of view.
What happens to you may be a matter of luck, but how you react to what happens is a matter of attitude. In case your mom… more
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Luck, or Habit of Mind?
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Persistence and Loyalty Pay Off
Most Friday nights you’ll find Phyllis Holmberg and her husband, his brother and their sister-in-law at the Biloxi, Mississippi casinos where they meet for dinner and to indulge a little cash in Phyllis’s favorite sport: gambling. When the Holmbergs get back to their house 40 miles away, Phyllis always checks her AdJack numbers, then makes her first entry for the next go ‘round.
When she got home on Friday, November 20, she checked her numbers and this time she couldn’t believe her eyes. “’Honey, I think I won,’ I said to my husband. I checked again. Then I looked at my account to make sure that I hadn’t written the numbers down wrong, and there it was. It said ‘CrackaJack.’ ‘Oh, wow!’ I said. I DID win! I never win anything!”
The $1,000 CrackaJack is the first big one for Phyllis, but she doesn’t let that stop her. “I love to gamble,” she says. “I might win a little bit, but I never win the really big money.
“I used to spend a lot of time entering sweeps, and I got some small stuff. I was spending too many hours in front of the computer. But then I came across AdJack. I quit entering everything else and I just do AdJack now. I’ve been entering for a about a year and a half. I read about these people who win the first time they play, and I think, how do they do that?”
She said she’ll use her AdJack winnings to… more