Starting a gambler kind of life is something different entirely from the normal life we live, because we must have started somewhere small as being a noob before we get to know and be where we are today, I remember those days I will have to safe up to gambling from my little incentives and allowances, while some from gift items and free donations I have received from other people, then use it to gamble in the casino and then spend all to lose and win not a single game.
It must have been a very bad experience for you and you must have also passed through a lot seeing yourself losing and still coming back to save up to gamble. Maybe you were younger and don’t have plenty of responsibilities that will take up your time to not even think of gambling for a while. It is good you never got addicted and was able to control your gambling habit, it would have been another story if the addiction sets in, your finances could have dilapidated by now. We grow to learn and become better from our past experiences, this is how gambling works and if you play by the rules of gambling, you’ll not always see a fault to blame in your gambling journey.