Obsession Of A Thief

Strange But True!

Have you guys ever come across certain individual yang looks all nice, but has this “habit” of stealing your belongings? Take your time and read this, who know you have not come across with one yet. Cos this gonna shock the hell out of ya. Individuals like this do exist!!

I first came across someone like this back in schooldays. The person was the nerdiest of us all. Not only that, she was an excellent student. I mean EXCELLENT! She scored 100% in Add Maths and even our Add Maths teacher said that she could actually replace him to check the exam papers. She’s That Good! As a friend, she’s soft-spoken, and she speaks all the nice words, polite tone and she would giggle like the most innocent kid. She wore glasses that actually complete the whole Nerdy impression that she gave people. The Last thing in anybody’s mind was – someone like this is actually an Obsessed Thief!!!

Her roommates knew better. They started to lose stuff like calculator and cassette and the silliest part is when they could find those things in her locker, and she even openly used those stuff like it was hers. My goodness!! When the owner of the calculator saw she was using the calculator, she asked her, “That one looks like mine which has lost. Is that yours?” Then she came with stupid answer like, “My brother just bought this for me”. And unless you want to be a little rough, you would confront her further. But if you’re too gentle for that, you could end up standing like a fool with your eyes open- wondering how the heck she could be hiding a monstrous hideous thief inside of her? I mean, it was almost shameless! The calculator owner said the calculator has all her marks on it, she couldn’t be wrong about it!

All of the roommates were starting to feel scared about this “silent thief” lurking among them and to protect themselves, they locked their lockers all the time! Even if the toilet was only doorsteps away, we could find all her roommates brought along their locker keys even to a short visit to the toilet. At first, we didn’t understand, because they didn’t just spill it out that “that maths genius in our room is actually a thief” – they actually spared the truth from most of us. Nobody would believe it anyway, UNTIL…you become the victim!!

Another major incident happened when she went out with her classmates. They went into a supermarket and she started joking about “just put the biscuits inside the bag bah!” and she actually did it! In front of her other friends. She stuffed another and another junkfood inside her bag, and her friends went speechless because they didn’t know that she had the guts to do that. Guess what? The security saw it and they all got arrested at a room and asked to pay double the price of the stolen foods, or else they could be handed to the police. She has no money to pay and she was crying, really getting into the nerves of her innocent friends. It was the friends who had to collect money and pay before they got released. It was totally a lesson for her classmates. But the story didn’t leak that fast. The friends were somehow protecting her because they didn’t want to embarrass her.

Aha…the year after, what do you call this, a bad luck? I finally got to be one of her roommates. She looked quite close to me because she liked to follow me around. I found nothing wrong with her because she was so nice and kind. Though I have heard about the “little stealing stories” but I did not believe it right away. I must find out with my own eyes. She’s a Maths genius, okay? How stupid could she be in telling right from wrong? How hard it is to identify that stealing is wrong? So after months, her classmate came to me, “Please help me. My book was stolen by “her”.” I was like, “Ah? Are you sure?” So I helped out by looking at her bed and Yes, we found the book below her pillow. I almost choked. I said to the girl, “Then ask her to return the book, maybe she only borrows.” That classmate of her said, “I have confronted her and she said it was her book. Her brother bought it for her. It has my name on the book!” And from there, our other roommates started to notice that we have also lost some money but nobody spoke about it. Because we did notice that we lost like a few ringgits from our lockers and thought that we misplaced. But it all made sense – because every morning this girl woke up hours before we all did. After all came out to the surface, we did confront her. I recalled one incident when she locked herself in her locker and refused to go out. The rest of us were outside the locker and started to torture her. I took the lead, of course. I was so pissed because she could probably stole something from me too, her own friend. I remember asking her repeatedly, “Why do you have to steal? Tell me???? Make me Understand??” She cried and said sorry from inside the locker. I actually pitied her for some reasons and eventually we found the way to forgive her. No one spoke of that until we finished school.

Okay, so do you think this is over?

The small world did it again. I saw her again in my college years. She was as cheerful as ever. I was delighted to see her too because nobody would remember seriously about her offense by looking at her super-nice impression. Again, SHE DID IT. Her roommate in college got it worst. She took her roommate’s ATM card and withdrew RM500 and spent it like there’s no tomorrow. She did it all in the week when the roommate was not in. It was a little mistake that the roommate made when she left the ATM card with the pin number. Who would have guessed that “the nerdy who was reading the bible” at the time, heard everything when she told another friend that she left the ATM and pin number to ask for a favour. When it all came out, the history repeated itself. The “torturing session” happened again when she was confronted by a group of friends (including her roommate) about that RM500 lost from ATM. I was there too because they wanted my help as a witness since I was her old schoolmate.

Do you see why I call it an OBSESSION of a Thief? I come to realize that this “stealing habit” is in her flesh. She could say sorry, she could cry, but she could not get rid of the obsession. This is AN ILLNESS. She could be smart and all, but Stealing is a different side of her. It’s something like a Nice man with a nice career and attitude who has a dirty nite life, screwing callgirls and partying nite after nite, and the next day, comes back to reality, be a courteous man-a dedicated worker-an obedient son- until it’s nite time again. Like oil and water who can’t blend together, but stay in the same body. And the body of the doer has to do the both sides to complete the cycle. In her case, to be A Nerdy Maths Genius &… A Thief.

How to handle orang macam ni? I can suggest a way. Orang mcm ni mencuri secara “lembut”. Dorang tidak akan break your locker untuk curi barang, melainkan peluang tu terbuka depan mata. Sebab dorang ni bukan violent punya orang. Jadi, one way to help them to not have the space to channel that obsession is To Not Create Opportunities for them to steal. Simpan all your belongings di tempat yang dia tidak boleh capai. Or avoid from staying in the same room with orang mcm ni – adalah lebih baik terjumpa tepi jalan and smile and say hi. At least you could remember the warm feeling of her niceness and tidak payah handle dia punya obsession mau mencuri.

So untuk si dia yang Mencuri tu, buli dinasihat ka tu? I don’t think so. Dorang bukan bodoh ba guys. Harap2 dorang ni akan ada focus lain yg akan takes away the need to steal. Especially when dorang sedar dorang boleh guna tu kebijaksanaan dorang tu untuk earn sendiri benda2 yang dorang mau curi tu. Apa2 pun, sia harap sia tidak akan deal dengan org mcm ni lagi. If any of you yang baca ni actually has this obsession, maybe you guys boleh stop sekejap and pikir sikit that what you are having might not be your fault, but it’s your own hands who steal, so your hands won’t do anything unless you let them, so THERE’S SOMETHING you can do about it.

Don’t let this stupid stealing obsession STEAL your good life from ya.