On Thieves and Ignorance

Is the country’s economy going down in shambles or is it just seeing more body counts of innocent students getting a bullet in their heads?

What a tragedy it is to watch the news about a victim of snatching left dead from the patch field of roses as her blood, slowly dripping, screams for justice. It’s such a waste of life just a mere thing could never imagine—a cell phone.

Hold-up and snatching are just few examples of how the world is going nuts over just a cell phone or a piece of green paper. Although I can’t blame the Philippine economy for showing one remarkable example of  what a domino effect looks like,  who could not have experienced the dreaded kickback of prices just to name a few?

I admit that thieves are also humans. Like we do, they need money in order for them to survive. They are just like us but, the difference is they are way below the poverty line. We can’t blame them for their action because they are doing what they think is right for them. They are just lazy bastards who don’t know where to look and hunt for food. They just swoop and get in for the killing. They all have one thing in common and that is to get something from us by force or by intimidation, even if it kills them. These barbarians are willing to take the broad daylight out of us in exchange for a few pieces of doubloons.

An animal is the best way to describe them. Their animalistic behavior intrigues even the most brilliant of minds. They strike without warning and the most recent reason why they do it is just for fun. With no rules to govern them, they act like all by themselves and set havoc in society.

We often see victims falling dead all for love of their cellular phones. Cases like a hold-up like, end up in bloodshed often have the same common theme and that is our ignorance to what these savage animals can and will do in order to get something from us. No one’s getting hurt if we just give them straight our valuables. We tend to be scared when they stick a knife right in front of our faces. Some of us might scream to death and for others they might as well run like no tomorrow. Our response triggers the criminals’ unmerciful nature and provokes them to give their victims one trip to hell. If only we know how to give our valuables to these savage, none of us will ever get hurt.

Most people who end up getting snatched or robbed often do careless acts. They invite thieves’ attention and draw them closer by the minute. Well, who wouldn’t be attracted to one sleek phone? Doesn’t everyone want to have it? It pains to see them dead and we all grieve and pity them. It’s absurd to feel mercy for these people if they don’t even know how to protect themselves from such a monstrosities.

The patterns are all obvious, and we are blindsided by them. Don’t you see the people who end up killed by robbers are people who are careless? Give me one good reason why on earth would you borrow a laptop charger from your friend’s house in the middle of the night? Why would you go home late when you know that it’s dangerous for you to go out way past your bedtime? Questions like these are so simple that even the person with the highest IQ tends not to understand it.

We jeopardize security for just a mere grade. We exchange our souls to the devil with just a measly flat one grade in our class. We don’t care for our safety, that’s why these criminals lurk in the shadows waiting for us to spill the beans.

Let me contend it’s not theft that’s plaguing the country, but it’s our stupidity and ignorance that give signals to these wretched people—the ‘go signal’ to take away our most precious of possessions, and this would even mean our dear lives.