Hello,

my name is David, I’m 25 years old and I will try to fill you more into a story about my life and reason why I’m asking for a help. I live in a Czech Republic and work as a police officer. I’ve been doing this job for more than 5 years now, becouse helping people in need, danger or in a bad times in life. Which is funny irony since now I’m the who who is asking for help. Before this job I used to be an home designer for one year, but I needed some more action in my life, not just a time behind a computer, you would never believe how exhausting it is to sit and think a whole day. After the change of job I was, becouse everything was working for me as I wanted (it’s never going to be a perfect, you are just feeling better).

I’ve been thinking about starting a fundraiser for a while, but I’ve been always scared for showing this story online, becouse of friends, family and people I know. I started with gambling and sports betting when I was 16 years old, I would never think that the small decision I made would change my whole life and personality. I started with some roulette using an online currency which you can convert into a real money, but this one wasn’t enough for me, I took it more as a form of fun, not really a thing that I would be able to make money with.

Later on when I was between 17 to 18 years old I discovered a sports betting. It really got me involved. I was never a child who watched sports or paid much attention to them. Since this thing was something new to me I started making a statistics, watch highligts of almost every single sport. And finnaly started betting on sports just as I was legally able to, at the day of my 18th birthday. Surprisingly I was doing really good, which got me even more into it, becouse it seemed like a easy unlimited to me. I started with about 2000€ and was able to turn them into 30000€ in a 2 years. Then I started spending them, bought a car, new phone that I wanted and I was just living in my naivity, that this will work for me forever.

This chapter will contain some things that are super hard for me to even write them, becouse of all the tears which are flowing from my eyes just as I’m writing everything down. All I ever wanted was for my parents to be proud of me. And I feel like this wish is already gone and I can’t make them proud anymore. My betting dream started falling apart after a few big losses just as I was 21 years old. Biggest problem in sport betting is a human factor in my opinion, becouse if you loose even one bet, you want to get it back as soon as possible. And if you are winning, you just want more and more. I’m pretty sure, you already know how this story will continue. In a month or two I lost all my winnings that I had up that point. So I stopped for a while and after a check in job I started again, and again I mannaged to loose everything. This was a circle that I got into for almost two next years. That was a time when I finally realized I was addicted. I tried to stop but it took me a year, so much money and I had to sell my car, becouse I borrowed some money in a bank and didn’t have enough for monthly payments. The problem was that the bank wasn't the only place I borrowed money from. I also made 7 loans in total from small agencies and that was the biggest mistake I made in this story. Somehow its almost a year since I pay every month for all these loans, and they are just getting bigger and bigger. And it truly gets over my head, becouse I don’t even know now how I’m going to live for a next month. Becouse of all this I had to stop going to gym, even tho I had my dream body and the gym was a place where I kept my head clean and forgot about all my problems for a while. Now I don’t even have enough money for membership. I’m not even talking about all those sleepless nights I had, when I was just shaking and sweating. And that would be the smallest problem of them all. Becouse right now I got myslef into a position where I’m slowly but surely loosing my parents (I told them about my problems a 2 months ago… I don’t think that I ever cried so hard as I did the moment I saw their dissapointed faces). I also told most of it to girl that I truly do love and she dicided to stay with me, but I hid a few parts of truth, becouse I didn’t wanted to loose her completely, even tho I hurt her with everyhing I said to her. I even held a gun to my head a few times and the only reason I didn’t pull the trigger was that I still have some people that loves me and I wanna fight and get myself out of this situation.

Right now I’m working in two other jobs, but the debts and monthly payments are so high that I can’t pay them all down. All of them together are over 20.000€. That’s the reason why I started this fundraiser and asked for your help. Every single donation will help me so much to get out of this situation. Even if you decide not to donate, maybe this story will help you if you are in the same problems as me or it may help you to see things clearly, becouse this addiction is very commeone and not many people talk about it. I will be happy to reply to all your comments, especially if you get yourself into similar problems as me.

Thanks for reading David