You're an experienced gambler, having gambled for many years and having seen and done everything. Part of your experience is taking a loan and chasing losses. What if one of the young new gamblers who happens to be close to you is planning to take a loan?
Will you open up and give yourself as an example of someone who takes a loan, chases losses, and eventually loses everything, or prefer not to because you are ashamed to look back at your bad experience, and people think that you are a weak person?
If you ask me, I will be honest and give myself as an example so that people will believe that it's a bad idea to take a loan, it's not a sign of weakness if you admit your past mistakes.
How about you? How do you see yourself?
Definitely owning up to our past mistakes and referencing it to the younger generations is not a sign of weakness at all, people make mistakes and sometimes, the mistakes we make is for us to learn so that we won't allow young ones coming up around us make the same mistake.
So for the reason of teaching the younger generations, I will always use my experiences as an example when trying to pass any knowledge to anyone, whether the person is younger or older than my very self, because people grow but no one grows above making mistakes, the young sometimes can teach the elderly while the elderly will also have something to teach the young as well..
It is commonly said that experience is the best teacher, I actually consider it a privilege to have gone through an experience which we learn from, and today be able to teach the younger generation through that experience, its a privilege for sure because those kids will forever remember the good impact you made in their life if what you taught them through your experience helped them not to make a major mistake that would have cost them alot.