Happy 10 days into the New Year! Anyone actually stuck to a resolution? (Well, I went to the gym and ran...once.)

We got a surprise visit from my sister this weekend. She called Thursday night to tell us she was coming home. She called at 11:45pm. Of course, I was the only one awake. Yes, it occasionally happens that I stay up past 10. I got caught on Netflix ordering movies and couldn't get off. So, when the phone rang I immediately worried. Just Jill. "Hey, it's me. I'm coming home this weekend." (me) "Oh, good." (Jill) "I had my wallet stolen." This is why people live in the suburbs! :)

Jill and talked some more, figured out what else she had to do - as she had cancelled her credit cards from the bar - made arrangements to get her picked up, called her stupid a few times, talked a little about fate and premonitions and went to bed. All day Friday it just bothered me. What makes someone else figure they're entitled to that for which you worked your *ss off?!?!?!? Granted, Jill had 2 credit cards, a $6 Starbucks card and $20 in her wallet, so not a whole lot for a thief to get excited about. Still, why does he think he should just be able to have it. What "Why should all these people have money I don't have? I can just take theirs, they don't need it." attitude makes someone steal from another person? The whole thing just makes me sick and angry as h*ll. They should be caught and submitted to electroshock therapy to adjust their view on life.

It's the same way I feel about people who steal children because they can't have them, or cars or who burglarize houses. If you want those things, work for them...just like the people you are taking them from had to do. And children stealing, well, that's just a whole 'nother ball game of crazy!

It happens on a more subtle note in America all the time. Maybe not the actual stealing, but the coveting and sense of entitlement. I think the difference is in the application. I may see a friend with a good husband, nice living quarters, car and genuinely happy and think, "why can't I have that?" "Don't I deserve to have that?" I would never take my friend's husband/car/abode, I just work to get those things in my life. Where in life...or maybe how bad does life have to get for you to believe you can just take things from another person because you don't have what they do and you want it?

Jill had a nice visit home. Got a new driver's license in a matter of minutes, and a new debit/Visa card. She recovered from her stress in not sleeping Thursday night (becasue of everything she knew she had to do on Friday) and remembers why she never puts her purse on the back of a chair when she's out. She will be a little more cautious and aware when she's out in the city, but all in all life will go on as normal. I hope it does not for those who are carrying a long, black leather wallet with a New Jersey license, Starbucks card and $20.