Letter to Julia 20110719

Hello there, my beautiful beloved Julia! I hope you are feeling fine and upbeat, for I'm sure you are working hard as usual. Please take good care of your lovely self, and please make sure you eat adequately.

As for me, I had to change my daily menu. For a while there, I had nothing but mackerel and onions, I couldn't even vary the preparation because of the lack of ingredients. Suddenly, the price of mackerel went sky-high. What was once considered "poor man's food" suddenly became unavailable for the poor. It's probably Chee Cheah's fault. I brought this to her attention, and she said "Meow", then gave me a look that said, "No, it's your damn fault." Oh yeah? I don't control the prices of fish and cooking oil! If they want me to buy more expensive fish, then they should give me more money! So, I turned to my Mexican influences (you know, the people oppressed by the drug cartels, as this is a similar situation), and am now living off chili and tortillas. Preparing beans takes forever. I should have soaked the beans overnight, but I got hungry. It takes at least half a day to cook chili, so I cook an enormous batch, and live off that for about a week or so. Most people don't know this, but chili matches well with rice. Hmmm, I wonder what chili with be like using lentils? Lentils are cheaper than beans. Biblical, isn't it? Quranic, rather.

There is the type of man who receives the Signs of God, but he passes them by. Therefore, the devil takes the opportunity to exert control over him. God could have elevated this guy with the Signs of God, but the human preferred the material over the spiritual, so he followed his own desires. Like a dog, if you beat it, it lolls out its tongue, and if you leave it alone, it lolls out its tongue. So, is it evil in his nature? Rather, God rejects those who reject the Signs of God. We often ask ourselves, "Why do these people who refuse to take heed, get away with their evil?" But they don't. The Compassionate One cuts them a break, and gives them respite until the punishment gradually reaches them, in ways that they do not perceive.