My blood boils as I am typing this. I want to throw bad words to my younger brother because I am so annoyed. Our younger brother gives us headache! I am not a bad sister but I was fooled so many times resulting that I don't trust him anymore but ended up helping him because he is my brother.
My brother was addicted to online sabong (cock fight) or I guess the right word is not was but is because he still didn't learned any lesson and you know what's worst? His problem became our problem because we are family.
It was started two years ago. We don't have any idea that he was into gambling though we knew that sometimes he was playing cards and cara Cruz in the street. He was working that time and we thought he has no problem until one day there's a person who came into our house saying that my brother has some dept to her and the money that he borrowed has some interest. If you remember my article about the short time lending system here where the interest is so huge. We choose to hide it on our father because he will surely get mad to my brother. I told my brother to settle his problem and he said he will. He was so good at making promises and manipulate us because of his words.
After a couple of months , he talked to me and cried saying if he can borrowed some money to me because he has dept and it was all because of online sabong. I asked him the amount of money that he borrowed and he said 25,000 pesos and that money has interest which is 2,500 pesos a week. I know my brother didn't know what to do anymore because of the interest. He has also no work that time. I talk to my husband about that thing and ask him if we can lend some money to my brother without an interest. I give the 25,000 pesos to him without an interest and he promised me that once he got a job he will pay me little by little.
A month after he got a job and told me a lot of promises and I believe him but after a month of having he job he still not paying me and told me a lot of reasons until pandemic came and my husband lost his job. I don't have a choice but force him to pay because he has some work that time. He paid me little by little and all in all it was amounting to 14,000 pesos. As of now he has some dept to me amounting 17,000 pesos but I didn't asked for instant payment because my husband has already.
October last year , I was shocked because of his revelation. He got addicted to online sabong again and even more shocked because he has a dept amounting to 87,000 pesos. He even resigned to his job and hide to all the people who borrowed him money. Since he was hiding that time , the people message his family which is us and even went to our house which is so humiliating in our side because I myself I am not into that kind of stuff. My mother said that time to let him face his problems , I don't have any help to offer that time because my husband was still jobless.
We told those people that we don't have any contacts on our brother which was true that time. He went to Manila and deactivated his social media accounts and told us that don't worry about him because he was fine and he will fix his life so we let him.
Months passed , he said he already settled his problems and talk to the person involved and we also thought that he will going to change because he told us that he learned his lesson. Just this week , someone message me and it was one of the people keep on asking where is my brother. I was in high blood that time because I am also having an anxiety and then that someone will disturb me and ask for the money that I didn't borrowed. I told that man that I don't care if he will file a case to our brother. I told him to do it and never disturb us because we can never do anything on that.
ECQ implemented in Manila and my brother contacted my father asking for some money because he said he don't have any allowance because it's ECQ and he has no work. Even my father is mad at him he still told me to send money to my brother. My brother didn't asked me some money because I send him many times but didn't return it. He always broke his promise and I am so used to it.
So last Aug 12 I send him some money and I thought it was for his allowance until ECQ finished but just this time my sister send a message to us saying that there's a girl chatted her and looking for our brother because our brother blocked her and he has some borrowed money and even told to my sister that our brother is her customer in online sabong. My blood boils instantly and then I go to our conversation to check the recipient of the money I sent to him last time and I found out the recipient and the person who chatted my sister were the same. So it means he only used the money he borrowed to our father for an online sabong. The money that I sent to him is not the money of my father but my hard earned money because I don't want to use my fathers money because he save it for his retirement.
I was very disappointed because even if we told him many times that there's no good effect in gambling he still into it. Should we advice him to go in rehabilitation center so that he can change his behavior? We want to help him because we love him but how can we do that if he can't help himself. I didn't know what would be my father's reaction when he knew this. For sure he will be on high blood too.
Sorry for making this article , I just want to express my emotions here as I am so high blood now.
Naaadik din yung tropa ko dito ngayon. Sabi nga namin sa kanya tigilan na or kung hindi kaya, disiplinahin or limitahan yung pagtaya. Kaso ganun yata pag na-hook na sa sugal, nabubulag sa pwedeng mangyari