What is the use of keeping a gambler close when it is conspicuous that they will make you suffer? There is little or no hope in thinking they will change. All you will get is misery, regrets, heartbreak and frustration.

Since 2015 when I embarked on the futile venture of bet9ja gambling, I have caused nothing but sorrow to my employers, family members, friends, girlfriend and especially my mother.

Please stop hoping that a gambler with change. Treat them (us) like how lepers were treated in the Bible. Run from any one who gambles (mostly virtual) in order to avoid untold pains to your life. Except you can bear the constant bad news about them till their brains finally get resetted by life.

We never change. It's been 45 days (a month & half) without engaging in bet9ja virtual. Yet, I still don't trust myself to say I am clean. Any thing can push me at any time to go back. I feel less human because I can't reason my life properly as others do yet. A normal person will hold money for contingencies. But my kind becomes restless when they see money.

I will let you in on some things I did to people who kept believing in me.....

Ftx

TRUST BROKEN

My mum was told countless times by my sister to let me rot in jail to learn my lesson. She didn't listen. I feel penitent now though. Not proud of how I made things tough for her. But it is what it is. With bet9ja influence, get-rich-quick syndrome and mother's pampering, 60 percent of youths have become wayward. My mum should have stayed aloof. I recall selling her Itel Tablet phone to gamble and lying it was stolen. I also remember selling the Nokia E63 fairly-used phone she bought for me to brighten my mood when i was phoneless. I convinced her I had changed after her advice. I even resumed church then. But I later relapsed into gambling.

My mum would always borrow me money to cope with myself at my duty post. This was from the little she had. I usually promised to pay back with my salary. But I ended up gambling with my salaries within two or three days. This usually made her tearful. The list of my actions at home is endless. My dad wrecked her. I shouldn't have made things worse, but it's the spirit in us (me).

My former employer once sent me to pay some money (19,000 naira) into the bank. I avariciously wanted to double the money to get some gain from it. I ended up losing it all. I lied I was robbed. After my open confession to my boss, he should have read the signs and sacked me before i causedhim more heartbreaks.

My sister who was magnanimously giving me some of her old things, should not have done so. After knowing I am a chronic gambler. I (used to) sell what I get, as long as it is sellable. I wish my friends I begged for alms in the past, did not help me. I wasted it all. I wish the government didn't give me reprieve. I no longer blame Buhari for my failures, but only myself. You should have that déjà vu feeling that we can't be trusted with money or responsibilities.

Baba come...if u are feeling this way then you're going about this addiction thing in a wrong method.
You should at least replace ur addiction with another....something you have conditioned your brain with for 5, years can't be stopped in 45 days.
Replace it with something like running, getting a soft skill etc
Unless u wanna continue wallowing in sorrow

Glad you are making efforts to get off the gambling hook. I pray you find strength to be totally free from gambling.

HOW WE SHOULD BE TREATED

A 15-year-old boy in my neighbourhood was sent by his mother who was a petty trader to go withdraw some money from the bank. Instead of withdrawing 19,000 naira he was sent, he gradually withdrew everything to gamble at a bet9ja shop After his mum recovered from the shock, she organised youths to discipline the child. He was whipped mercilessly by youths. Even though it was a shocking and painful sight to behold, it was the way to go.

A fridge repairer close to my work place heard his teenage son was among those who stole money from their master (the person they were working for) to gamble, did not to stop the repercussion. His son is currently rotting in jail.

Though I fear being locked up or beaten for my atrocities. Glad it didn't happen to me. But that is the way to go. Be stern and put your foot down. It's the way to go. If possible, send your child away if he is an addict to gambling before he sells everything in your house.

If you are dating a gambler, break up. Don't be deceived by their ephemeral winnings, it doesn't last. Greed/addiction has a way of making gamblers raise their stakes, the more they win. You must have read on front-page of nairalanders who lost above 500,000 naira on just one high stake game.

YOU HAVE BEEN FOREWARNED

Heartlessbanker:
Ftx

FTC you mean or what?

Many boyfriends and husbands are open and coded gamblers.. So, don't bother telling ladies to break up with them because they are aware. E get why...

ChildOfDoom:
What is the use of keeping a gambler close when it is conspicuous that they will make you suffer? There is little or no hope in thinking they will change. All you will get is misery, regrets, heartbreak and frustration.

Since 2015 when I embarked on the futile venture of bet9ja gambling, I have caused nothing but sorrow to my employers, family members, friends, girlfriend and especially my mother.

Please stop hoping that a gambler with change. Treat them (us) like how lepers were treated in the Bible. Run from any one who gambles (mostly virtual) in order to avoid untold pains to your life. Except you can bear the constant bad news about them till their brains finally get resetted by life.

We never change. It's been 45 days (a month & half) without engaging in bet9ja virtual. Yet, I still don't trust myself to say I am clean. Any thing can push me at any time to go back. I feel less human because I can't reason my life properly as others do yet. A normal person will hold money for contingencies. But my kind becomes restless when they see money.

I will let you in on some things I did to people who kept believing in me.....

with the way u are going with the whole thing, am pretty sure u will still play virtual.


its only a matter of time.

Heartlessbanker:
Ftx

This ur FTC na dead on arrival.

FTC wey nor reach FP that one na FTC

I'm selling this UK used hp laptop for 42k.
Click here to check the specs

You this guy again! Kill urself na

bootyeater:
Baba come...if u are feeling this way then you're going about this addiction thing in a wrong method.
You should at least replace ur addiction with another....something you have conditioned your brain with for 5, years can't be stopped in 45 days.
Replace it with something like running, getting a soft skill etc
Unless u wanna continue wallowing in sorrow

hmmm. Running or a soft skill may not work now. My body is wired to unconventional or naughty things. Currently, porn, masturbation, naughty groups, junk eating at hangout bars, seeing myself as a mess that needs to remain sober & partially working to prepare my students for WASSCE is a good distraction now.

Fastestmanalive:



This ur FTC na dead on arrival.

FTC wey nor reach FP that one na fp?

how we wan take no one when go reach FP na?

Heartlessbanker:
how we wan take no one when go reach FP na?

It's just by luck nothing else

But it's not an FTC until it reaches front page.

Not today, you've started again oo

GboyegaD:
Glad you are making efforts to get off the gambling hook. I pray you find strength to be totally free from gambling.

Amen. Thanks for the encouragement

I was omce in your shoes, I was addicted to gambling due to peer group influence,I disengaged my self from friends and i prayed to God and gambling became a thing of the past...
Try channeling that money you use in gambling into something more productive, engage your self in something that will make your life better, forgo the get money quick syndrome and pray to God, he will surely hear your prayer.

My favorite quote from Frank in the tv series Shameless.

Once an addict, always an addict!

I still never grad after like 6 years for uni cos of gambling(virtual). Na only project dey stall me o.

My project supervisor nearly lose her job because of me.

My matter don tire me sef. Everybody don lose hope for my matter but i no fret!

I will pick up the pieces and bounce back. Im very optimistic.

I understand your predicament cos i have been there. I nearly jump inside lake before cos of frustrations, that was the lowest i have ever been.

But we move!

My favorite quote from Frank in the tv series Shameless.

Once an addict, always an addict!

I still never grad after like 6 years for uni cos of gambling(virtual). Na only project dey stall me o. Any small money I see, I go just go gamble. If I win, na to just dey drink and carry women. When money finish, I go remember say project still dey. Was just going round circles, infact I'm still going round circles. The covid-19 break no let me know my stand for school sef.

My project supervisor nearly lose her job because of me. She go score me and I no submit anything.

My matter don tire me sef. Everybody don lose hope for my matter but I no fret!

I will pick up the pieces and bounce back. Im very optimistic.

I understand your predicament cos i have been there. I nearly jump inside lake before cos of frustrations after I lost so much one night that was the lowest I have ever been.

Wolgrace:
Many boyfriends and husbands are open and coded gamblers.. So, don't bother telling ladies to break up with them because they are aware. E get why...

hmm. I don't have issues with gamblers who only book games with little sums. 80 percent of gamblers do so. It's the 20 percent who play live bet9ja virtual (fast win/lose) or high stake, that girls need to be wary of

ChildOfDoom:
hmm. I don't have issues with gamblers who only book games with little sums. 80 percent of gamblers do so. It's the 20 percent who play live bet9ja virtual (fast win/lose) or high stake, that girls need to be wary of

See, all gamblers have issues with themselves. It's not my business.

novice22:
with the way u are going with the whole thing, am pretty sure u will still play virtual.


its only a matter of time.

ah. I reject it! I have suffered enough from betting

Volkswagen90:
You this guy again! Kill urself na

I still haven't lost hope on myself

Stephenmoka4:
Not today, you've started again oo

my lamentations, my fate, my nature

Lol

ChildOfDoom:
TRUST BROKEN

My mum was told countless times by my sister to let me rot in jail to learn my lesson. She didn't listen. I feel penitent now though. Not proud of how I made things tough for her. But it is what it is. With bet9ja influence, get-rich-quick syndrome and mother's pampering, 60 percent of youths have become wayward. My mum should have stayed aloof. I recall selling her Itel Tablet phone to gamble and lying it was stolen. I also remember selling the Nokia E63 fairly-used phone she bought for me to brighten my mood when i was phoneless. I convinced her I had changed after her advice. I even resumed church then. But I later relapsed into gambling.

My mum would always borrow me money to cope with myself at my duty post. This was from the little she had. I usually promised to pay back with my salary. But I ended up gambling with my salaries within two or three days. This usually made her tearful. The list of my actions at home is endless. My dad wrecked her. I shouldn't have made things worse, but it's the spirit in us (me).

My former employer once sent me to pay some money (19,000 naira) into the bank. I avariciously wanted to double the money to get some gain from it. I ended up losing it all. I lied I was robbed. After my open confession to my boss, he should have read the signs and sacked me before i causedhim more heartbreaks.

My sister who was magnanimously giving me some of her old things, should not have done so. After knowing I am a chronic gambler. I (used to) sell what I get, as long as it is sellable. I wish my friends I begged for alms in the past, did not help me. I wasted it all. I wish the government didn't give me reprieve. I no longer blame Buhari for my failures, but only myself. You should have that déjà vu feeling that we can't be trusted with money or responsibilities.

you are a thief... Olojukokoro

tunjilee003:
I was omce in your shoes, I was addicted to gambling due to peer group influence,I disengaged my self from friends and i prayed to God and gambling became a thing of the past...
Try channeling that money you use in gambling into something more productive, engage your self in something that will make your life better, forgo the get money quick syndrome and pray to God, he will surely hear your prayer.

Amen. I have started disassociating myself from 'friends'. And my quality time is now spent on research. I pray my addiction is all over before I get tortured or locked up for dubious dealings. Currently making my Director/employer happy again, with my dexterity and expertise in answering WASSCE questions. That's a start

IamDavids:
My favorite quote from Frank in the tv series Shameless.

Once an addict, always an addict!

I still never grad after like 6 years for uni cos of gambling(virtual). Na only project dey stall me o.

My project supervisor nearly lose her job because of me.

My matter don tire me sef. Everybody don lose hope for my matter but i no fret!

I will pick up the pieces and bounce back. Im very optimistic.

I understand your predicament cos i have been there. I nearly jump inside lake before cos of frustrations, that was the lowest i have ever been.

But we move!

hmm.. It is well. I pray God delivers us quick, so we can pick up the pieces of our lives and move on

i pray u stop gambling OP...... meanwhile lyon vs bayern fit play OV2.5