Topic: Do you regret also for ever knowing about gambling? - page 22. (Read 2898 times)

I, personally not.

But there are many people who likes use gaslighting to other since he don't want to feel lower or lose, even though they're wrong. Such people is toxic, better to cut off the relationship with them.

People who're regret for knowing about gambling are obviously gambling addicts.

Sometimes I regret, sometimes I'm thankful. LOL..

You know what I mean, as a gambler we have some kind of mix emotions depending on the situation, so it's hard to decide when you are losing or winning. As of now, I'm not gambling, or safe to say I'm done for today, so I don't have emotion in me and my statement is currently honest.

So my answer is, no, I don't regret knowing gambling as this teach me how to take risk and manage it. Just pause of a while, look around and see those successful people, what do you see in them? Aren't they risk takers? yes, they are, so in life, if we want to succeed financially, we need to take risk and only in gambling where we can learn that which isn't too costly than starting a business just to learn the risk.

I think it is inappropriate for your friend to blame that other friend that he entered gambling. We've all made choices and blaming others for our actions is a bit like playing the blame game. Everyone's got their own responsibility, he should be mature enough to know that. It's not like your friend was forced to keep gambling, it's a personal choice thing unless he was manipulated or threatened to gamble.
As his friend, the best you can do is to understand him. Maybe it's just his way of coping with the regret and guilt, throwing blame around. I mean, who wants to admit they messed up big time? It's easier to point fingers.

No, not really. As long as you treat it like a game and encourage being responsible with your money, meaning not to blow everything at gambling by getting too emotional at your losses, then I don't see a solid reason to regret it. As user @alastantiger mentioned already, no one forced your friend to be involved in gambling in the first place, let alone continue after observing that it was hurting him, both mentally and financially. You can always stop if it's hurting you; it's supposed to be an entertaining activity, not a burden that wrecks you.

If it's causing issues in your real life, then you should quit, and if you're unable to do it yourself, you need to seek help. Addictions are a bitch, and it's not shameful to ask for assistance. The majority of us have probably been in a similar position once in our lifetime, not necessarily regarding gambling.

Do you believe asking this question would help you in stopping your regret? I do not think so and I feel you should stop blaming someone else for your decision. No one forced you to go with your friends and gamble, you took that decision on your own and if someone has to be blamed then it is you for not listening to your inner self when you gamble for the first time.

I never went or was forced by my friends to gamble as it was my choice. It started with the lottery and now It has changed to betting on sports, sometimes I make good money, and sometimes I lose good money that does not mean I should blame others for my actions as it is my choice and my money. I do not hate myself for my actions as I not completely losing my mind every day by gambling daily. Unless there is a big sporting event I do not bet on the sports I like.

Your friend is wrong. No one put a gun to to head to begin gambling or to continue gambling after the first time. This is playing the victim card and acting up. He should take responsibility for his life and his gambling habit.

I do not feel this way. I learned how to gamble on my own and only once have I gotten with a group of friends to do it. I learned it myself and I have been pretty able to put the habit in check whenever it seems that I am about to over do it.

Anyone who has a grudge with friends so settle it with those friends or where they can't , they should stay away from them.

Gambling is not a thing anyone should be blame someone else for, I don't think anyone can be forced into Gambling,  this is a personal decision that people choose for themselves. Anyone having gambling issues call it addiction or whatever, this things are caused based on how people took gambling so serious by expecting so much from it. When engaging into gamble people needs to be conscious on how they play if not it will be something that may cause alot which can lead to regrets.

Their are ways people must go about gambling,  it should not be what we need to expect so much  money from as a source of income or a way to make huge sum of money.

Okay discussion copied for discussion.
This also reminded me when I and my friend discussed about how some person's are engaged with some sorts of addiction and would never realize the errors at their engagements as long they are not willing to change from it but only those who are willing to change if they want would acknowledge what they are doing is an addition probably some sorts of unhealthy additions such as smoking and alcohol that is liable to damage the lungs
At first that of my guy was in the same lines of discussion with me but along the lines, the most himself because he is an addicted smoker then turned against me where he began to say..... There are people that lives 70s-80s-90s and still smokes and drinks meaning nothing ever happened to their lungs.
At this point of time, he is giving himself some sorts of hopes and reasons about his addictions. That is definitely he would never change from it because he is not ready to figure any sort of errors or some unhealthy repercussions that is liable to accompany his addictions of smoking.

Equivalently, that is the same scenario between you all discussion. You maybe all addicted to gambling and never realizes the consequences nor understands the mayhems you are causing to yourself simply because you are never ready at all to any form of changes of riding away with your addictions in the gambling while your friend is craving to struggle out of the gambling whereas, he is flexible to make changes about his gambling addictions that is just the possibilities of his abilities to error findings about his engagement in gambling because he either wants to quit or limits his gambling velocity. Hopefully setting a gamble portfolios budgets.

Sometimes we are so loosed to nonsensical indulgences that are probably and influenced by friends or the environment.
So if such life was never part of us, we could be able to realize what we are up to is not sensible nor productive to some profits. Also as the ability to recall yourself about some addiction which turns your life around either h bad reputation or some series of thoughts and realizations that he had been loosing up to the gambling and never had been at the winning side to make profits.
So it is believed that that if your friend had the personal ability to take control of his emotion's in gambling which left him regretted and disappointed of himself.
Otherwise no grudges not hatreds as thought OP.

If a friend was introduced to gambling at first and he doesn't see anything positive about it for him then he should quit and not to be engrossed in it after the friend has left him to himself and later he comes to start complaining or blaming the friend for introducing him to it because he has been losing, what about the times he won 

It is only a child that could be excused for that kind of complaint because he may not have the capacity to think himself out of such a dilemma and this is why child gambling or underage gambling is prohibited but for an adult to complain after he has relished some positive vibes of winning, he caused himself whatever pain. He should know the risk involved at least at a point.

I'm responsible to my actions if I want to gamble or not and not to blame anyone.

I believe that betting is like any other action of humans.
a bit like wishing for something. in short it is something inside the human being, you cannot not know it or reject it.
Daily, you are already doin hundreds of bets

Regret ? its always there specially when we are losing even the single cents in our pocket and that is a normal scenario that every gamblers will support and believe , but the thing is changing the course when gamblers are winning because they kept thanking gambling for coming their life.
Not sure if all but I believe that majority will agree on me here.
lucky that you are not literally gambler so you know what is the risk and what can be done when having a wrong decisioning.
good for you mate .

I understand how your friend feels and why he blames other people for his gambling behavior. Maybe he is having difficulty managing himself now and his gambling activities are disrupting his financial condition which is causing problems in his life. But it's quite funny to blame other people for what he feels now, because he gambled with his own conscience and it was his own decision, so why would he blame other people for the mistakes he made consciously?
But I don't know, people's attitudes are different and we cannot dictate to them their attitudes. But for me personally, I don't want to blame other people for my gambling behavior because it was my own decision to gamble from the start.

I don't regret learning about gambling, even when I was still a child, I was already exposed to it through simple games with friends that involved money. I was aware of the risks and consequences, so it wasn't a big deal for me even if I experienced losses. Perhaps those who have regrets are the real gamblers who have been greatly affected negatively in their lives. And those who became serious about gambling that led to problems, I didn't reach that point.

Well, OP we are responsible for our actions and inactions so no matter who encouraged or persuaded you to join anything you have to understand that you are to be held accountable if what you choose to do goes wrong, okay let's assume someone now convinced you to join armed robbery and you know too well the consequences that is attached to armed robbery so will you join simply because you were convinced by the person? Well, lemme not digress from the Original topic but I don't think there is need for someone to regret something they choose to do because I believe that before you join anything in life you must have checked the advantage and the disadvantage of what you choose to do so In case things begins to go wrong there is absolutely no need of pointing a finger at someone that introduced you to such thing.
Gambling is meant to be played at leisure and for pleasure so whether you're incurring losses or making gain shouldn't make you feel emotionally down to the extent of regretting or pointing fingers at someone who persuaded you to join.

Well, you said it, that was childish of him. Now that you have all grown up you should know how to be responsible with your own acts and not because someone invited you to be conscious about gambling and now the blame game is happening. That's not right. Don't point fingers at your own choices, it's not their fault. We have our own decisions on why we do those bad habits and I bet he also enjoyed gambling at first until he was losing some money.

Then, you are all friends, I mean sharing experiences about gambling will do you great and the discussions should not lead to blaming each other. Those were your fun moments as friends and no one should be pointing fingers because all of you made that decision individually. It should not matter how you all end up but what matters is how you can help each other starting now.
I don't regret being introduced to gambling, it made my love for sports more colorful and exciting.

At some point, yes, when I experienced being addicted, and because of that, it disrupted my life, but when I realised it was my own fault, I'm the one who cost it, so will I blame gambling itself? There will be no addiction to gambling if they don't let themselves become addicted, I think of that. Right now, after that realisation, I still play gambling, but not always, let's say often, but with discipline in mind and always setting up the kimit for myself. I'm only spending the money that I can afford to lose, and I enjoy more gambling after that. There is no hope that I will win. So for those blaming gambling, think again: are the casinos or online casinos at fault because you are addicted, or are you yourself who let yourself become addicted and did not limit yourself, resulting in bad results?

Regretting something we did is something normal but the most important thing is how we deal with it. Some time I feel regret when I remember the time I lost some money in gambling, but I always try to forget about it and move on. I believe that regret something too much will not help us to be better but it will bring us into worse situation. If we need to blame, we should blame ourselves if there is negative effect of what we did but still we should not do it too much. We should be mature enough to evaluate and find the best solution if we are already in serious issue that comes from our gambling habit.

More reason why I always insist on asking the age involved. There are ages that are not considered matured, they are mostly called minors.

They have no will power to an extent and they tend to copy loads of people since they can't function themselves. At that age of life, whatever traits you pick up can not be dropped easily and when you don't let your guardian know about it, you'll drown in it.

To an extent, I'll join him in blaming the guy but from a matured standpoint, I'll blame myself for not having muscled the courage to stop

No, definitely I don't feel grudge or hatred or for someone who teaches me gambling at early age or even a high school friends. It is up to you whether you want yourself to get involved in gambling or any other vices for that matter during those days.

And that's what we call peer pressure, if you succumb to the gambling just because all your friends around are gambling then the issue is on you. Maybe one of your friend you become addicted is looking for someone to blame as to what happen in his life. He should have taken control of everything as I have said, in my opinion. And be man enough to admit your mistakes and not point to others.

why regret after knowing how to gamble or after gambling when gambling is just a pleasure that gives someone a very interesting experience.
I understand your friend situation but it is your friend fault who takes gambling too seriously while he forgets something important that gambling is a place of entertainment to have fun and if your friend regrets having done that and blames the other party it is the same as a loser gambler who regrets saying hate after often losing at gambling.

I have had bad times in gambling so I am saying this all from my own experience and my advice to anyone is dont take gambling too seriously deposit the amount you can afford and gamble responsibly and enjoy your betting sessions to get pleasure rather than regret.