websurfpro
10-10-2007, 05:09 PM
I remember the first time i started to gamble for real is when I was 16 years old . I droped out of school and left to Italy for work. I used to earn good money there arround 80 euros/ day , this with a 16 hours program. In italy i only gambled ilike 5 euros a day they did not even have that many casinos but i was just too tirred and did not feel like gambling on sundays when I had a day off. But every 3 months I came home with arround 300-4000 euros so i had enough money to gamble. When I was 18 I got into possesion of a inheritance arround 20,000 $, meanwhile I was still gambling. If I do a short calculation I have lost arround 25-30,000 $ in my entire life, money thrown down the drain. What about you guys how much have you lost?
websurfpro
10-04-2010, 09:06 PM
Somewhere $75,000+. And I will stop here. I have never had my own house/apartment or car. I fully regret all the time and money lost over the years. I came upon this post dating 2007 .. I cannot believe how time has passed.
My point in getting back to this thread is contributing to this community and hopefully my words will bring some benefits to members of this forum. Not only I regret the time and money lost during my gambling years but this addiction out of all my mine has been my self-esteem's number 1 enemy.
I have lost so much. My self-esteem is down to nothing I live pretty much in disgust, not knowing to love any more, I feel like terrible about my past.
I decide to change and this is because I feel it is the time. Either now or later it will be practically impossible to do alone. People do not get fooled by any sort of gambling ever! It does not bring anything good to you, either if you bet small amounts or big amounts. I've witnessed many people destroying their lives. I've lived it myself to get to the point where I truly believe gambling is fooling yourself. No benefits. The problem with gambling is that it's an addiction. And what does addiction mean? You will repeat the process over and over again. Correct? Well, by doing this you will never have any profit from this activity. You will probably say: "I never gamble more than I can afford to lose." Ok, I get your point! But you are still losing time! It does not bring any benefit to you to be engaged in a kind of feeling called "Stress". it destroys your inner balance, no matter if you do it on a small or large scale.
In the mind of the constant gambler there is nothing more than the desire to win. To win especially what was lost. Why even get there? Stop at a point where it hasn't interfered with your personal life, destroying it. Let the time and money lost to be gone forever as it will never come back. Guaranteed!
You might win today what you've lost yesterday or the past one year but you'll never ever win everything back. You are probably thinking right this moment : "Ok, but I've won more than I've lost...." You never win anything trust me ! You lose so much gambling.. let the money apart its not everything.. The time lost, the stress .. it doesn't bring anything good into out lives. I am out of this trap forever! I hope you are too, choose not to gamble today! Never!
Peace!