Example Of Essay On A Hard Learnt Lesson

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Some lessons are learnt the hard way, so did I, with an upside that it will always remain with me as a rule for life. Sometimes I look at my bad experience as a gift, as it gave me a lesson for yet cheaper than I would have learnt it in days to come.
I used to be a rather soft heartened person, and it was very easy for anyone to use a made up story to earn my sympathies. I had a friend who was not as well off as he would have liked, hence it was not possible for him to bear all his expenses very easily. He used to work part-time to support himself with the least success.
I used to save a lot of travel, and since I was quite a boring personality and never really spent on entertainment, I was always able to help my friend get over certain expenses. He used to pay me back after all, money did not grow on trees for me too. Since he had a habit to return me first up as soon as he got paid, I could afford getting discomforted for a few days due to shortage of money as it helped my friend. But one day he asked me for a bit too much and I as always agreed and lent him, he failed to return me the amount leaving me high and dry, not even able to ask it back from him. Turned out that he always used to gamble on baseball matches and that one time he lost a big wager.
Although I forgave him after he promised for his own sake never to gamble again, but my loss was made. I then took a vow never to lend money to anyone without being sure about whether they would be able to return it or not. I was certainly not going to make an exception for friends of mine too.