Thursday, August 2, 2007

Rob it

To embezzle use money, I had a practice of stealing money from my house, from my parents when I was young, for small things that I wanted to buy in life like a chocolate, But after a small search I found that I need to keep money that was important which let me to steal the money that was kept in cupboards. I was presuming to be a real thief, and I have carefully taken money many times, I haven’t stole more than 100 INR in my whole life and act it though I haven’t touched or never moved to the side of the money and was really unaware that the money was there. All I asked them when the money was missing was to keep it in a secured place. The worst fun is my people at home knew that I was stealing, Sometimes, they get really bugged up and get angry and say, “We cant really keep money in here” It just flies, Sometimes, they ask me. But I was damm reluctant to say, I haven’t done it.
It happened one day that I did the same steal carefully planned to have more money and to buy something, I had another reason that was really not a cause. My fathers ceremony expenses. But I really dint mean to give it to my fathers ceremonial expenses, but to pay off for the smaller things that came in life of that day and to buy something that is really needed, Know what a home theatre system. I had spoken with one of the guys for a second hand system and he was ready with one with two big speakers and I loved the babe to be big. It had cost me 500 INR, I could recollect It should have happened in my 7 or 8 th standard of my schooling. The previous day, I spotted a gold chain lying with pearls and green color stones under the saris that were folded neatly, So I tried to take that, In a moment, but since people were there, I never tried to touch it, but carefully made my plan to get it the next day.
In the morning, Within 10 seconds, my plan was in my pocket, Happy, I had the guts to go to a pawn shop and sell it off, He gave me a piece of paper and I filled in the form with my actually address, and he paid me 1500 INR for the chain, IT was around 10:00 AM, I went out to my friend and got the home theatre delivered with the help of my brother. And had gone out not to remember where, I came around 2:00 or 2:30 in the afternoon to have my lunch, I was there with my whole family in the hall of my house. My mother, 2 aunties and their brother. My brother was playing cricket. I just walked in without saying a word and my mother stood up from the bench and started to ask to say this “Babu (thatz how they used to call me) the Pawn fellow came and said, the chain what you had sold off was not gold it was just silver and demanded that money back, So your aunts paid him off the money and gave the chain back. I was shocked, I am damm pissed, not knowing to tell, how to cover up things, but I haven’t had the slightest imagination of accepting things. I might have had, but never told them. My Aunty came and told “Just don’t ask him anything” and everyone carried their own work. That thing changed my life. I stopped stealing my house money from that day, When I earned, I made up a point that I kept the money as I got it in the same place. And they would be saying, I don’t remember where this “Money came from”. I used to smile inside that Im doing the right thing now.
I have learned a big lesson, Not about stealing money, but about forgiving the stealing, forgiving to question to get an answer.
Now, Im 28 and have more money, than I care of counting them what I keep in my wallet, But for the past few days, Someone in my house is stealing the money, just the 1000 INR single piece, but all others are just remaining in my wallet. I don’t know who is done it. I my mother are the two living souls here, The servant lad comes and goes, I doubted him, but was not able to ask him if he has taken the money.