When I went to Florida, our rental home got broken into and all of my video games were stolen. Literally the most heartbreaking moment of my life.
Dude what is it about Florida?! When I was on holiday there in 2009 our villa was broken into and they stole my DS, my brother's DS, my grandma's jewellery, and a pair of my grandad's sandals (they were fake designer though so the joke's on the burglar tbh). It was the most awful thing, I remember walking in and noticing something amiss from my room, like someone had tipped all of my stuff out onto my bed from my bag, and they didn't even put anything back, they just left it there, so it was obvious someone had broken in. I noticed my DS was gone and I started crying so much. I know it sounds silly, but it was just one of the worst moments of my life. I got that DS for Christmas when I was 7 and it was literally my favourite thing, I had gone through a lot with my DS and had lots of fond memories from playing games with friends like Nintendogs and Mario Kart and Pictochat. It was like the chunky pink DS Phat I believe?? So it was really really old. I don't think it would have been worth much anyway. My brother was even more distraught they took his DS because it had his copy of Pok?mon Emerald in it. We had spent months and months and months trying to find a copy of that for him (since we were buying it several years after it was released) and when we finally bought it he was so happy but then it had gone again. I'm just glad all I left in my DS was some Club Penguin game and not something like Pok?mon Pearl or Wild World because then I would have personally gone and found that burglar and strangled them with my bare hands. I was 11 though.
Anyway, in all seriousness, if you haven't had your house broken into, then good, and I hope it never happens to you. Having your possessions stolen is probably one of the worst things that can happen to you, especially when they take something which has so much sentimental value attached to it, like my DS did for me, and same with my grandma, because they stole some of her rings and jewellery she had gotten from my grandad. Even when I got a replacement DS it didn't feel the same having it, it just lost that sentimental value and I didn't appreciate it as much. And when your house is broken into it feels like your privacy has been violated and you begin to feel so insecure and unsafe, even though your home should be perhaps the only place in the world where you should feel secure, happy, and comfortable.
Honestly, I don't sympathise with burglars, I don't care what petty motives they may have for stealing things, it's disgusting and greedy. :\