Letter to Erin 20150403

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

I've been trying to tell you this for a long time already, but you can't seem to grasp it.  How can I shout it at you?  I'm too far away!  So let's try this: ***THERE IS NO PRESSURE***YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING TO MAINTAIN YOUR SUCCESS***YOUR POSITION IS BEING MAINTAINED FOR YOU***  God is maintaining it for you.  If you just can't have faith in God, then you are under a lot of real and serious pressure.  So be grateful to God, and don't complain about your position!  You're not destitute!  You don't have people trying to kill you all the time!  So what about all that running around you do?  That's just you.  It's your force of habit.  So make a habit of slowing down.  Plus I love you for your work of charity, but please don't overdo it.  Don't be a hero.  It is not your place to be the hero.  You are the damsel, not the hero.

I don't like to harp on the things we have in common, but one of them is that we share an addictive personality.  Which is why I don't want you to even touch drugs and alcohol.  But you're an adult and you're too far away, so I can't stop you.  Just be sure to stop when the time comes, and it will come inshaAllah.  Don't think I don't feel as you feel.  Hell, I'm an old man, and I'm going to have to start doing drugs to rejuvenate my virility.  Desire isn't good enough anymore.  But there has to be some other way, a better way than drugs...

People are behaving insane right now, aren't they?  Totally looney!  But that insanity doesn't really apply to us.  That's because mashaAllah (by the will of God), we are in the eye of the hurricane.  So you have basketball players surrounding you and wanting to play one-on-one with you.  You're in the center, that's why.  And I don't want to have sex with or marry Megan Fox.  I just want to look like her.  Before the plastic surgery, that is.  With a great looking rack, and a big dick.  But that's impossible in this life.  I don't want to marry them, I want to marry you.  And you know I can't slut around on you, because I would get caught!  We are in the eye of the hurricane, by the will of God.  I love my parents dearly, but our parents will never understand our business of marriage.  That's because they are our parents.  Enough said.  Ya Allah, please have mercy on my parents as they cherished me in childhood.

I want to say how cute you look in bangs.  You are the most beautiful girl in the world to me.  I have chosen to marry you, Erin.  I love you, and I need you.