an open letter to the loser who stole my laptop

Dear loser,

I don’t know who you are and what you do, but I feel like talking to you. I feel like telling you that you might have made me a little hysterical for a few hours, but you cannot hold me down forever. You probably underestimated me or made a mistake in judging me. You probably don’t know that I am a survivor, a fighter, I never give up. Sure, that electronic device had become an integral part of my life and I couldn’t imagine my life without it, but now that it’s gone, not only I am surviving, but I have become more enlightened with a different perspective about life. The data that I lost will be rebuilt after a while, but the lesson that I learnt would take a lifetime for you to realize.

I really don’t know what your intentions were.

If you were planning to sell the computer for few thousand rupees, you will probably be able to sell it, but how long will that money last? Soon you will be broke again, what will you do then? Steal something else? That’s a nice choice for a career. Sooner or later you will be busted and belong in jail.

If you stole my PC because you thought you were in greater need of it and could use my laptop to fulfill your needs, I am sorry to disappoint you that it was two year old machine and within few months it will be obsolete. So you are stuck with an antique junk which you won’t even be able to sell at a decent price after some time. So enjoy with your piece of crap. I was already planning to buy a new laptop in few months. You just made me expedite that process.

But if you are the worst of all evils and all you wanted was to harm me by not letting me work smoothly and paralyzing me by taking my primary tool away, you have failed miserably. I don’t know what benefits you were expecting to get by putting hindrances on my way, but I am sure you got none. If you thought I would be unable to operate for a while, it must have been a bummer for you to see me operational the next morning by having another laptop in my hands. Within 24 hours I had acquired everything I needed to work at my regular pace. All you caused was a minor inconvenience, and that’s it. Didn’t I say you underestimated me?

Still, I must thank you for giving me the opportunity to evaluate myself and reconsider my security strategy. I have learnt to take better care of things that are important to me and make my data more secure and more redundant to minimize the damage if you or some other loser decided to make another move.

So you have lost in any case. You gained nothing from this stunt of yours, and gave me a valuable experience.

I consider myself a loser for not being able to achieve all that I wanted, but you are even worse. You are an underachiever and you can’t stand others achieving something. At least I have never been jealous of anybody, and I stand here by hard work and struggle, not by pulling somebody else’s leg.

I know I might never be able to see my laptop again, and I should move on, and move on is what I will do, but I wanted to take this off my chest before I could really move on.

Much love,
Umar