The Pursuit of Happiness........

Dear Future Wife,

I am sorry it has taken this long to find you, I have been busy trying to get myself ready to support the family financially and emotionally. Today though I take a break from trying to make my daily bread to write you this heart felt letter.

I am seriously beginning to think that I am on the wrong path to find you, growing up they said someday we would meet and fall crazy in love, we will get married and live happily ever after. Dont get me wrong I am not ready to get married now, but I need these next years to form a friendship with you and know that it is really you. However my experience thus far has shown me that is probably never going to happen, maybe they got the sequence wrong because now I am beginning to think that love before getting married is just a cocktail for disaster. Sounds crazy eh? Marriage as an institution has been abused and disabused so much these days and this is one of the fundamental reason, people who have chemicals running in their brains decide to tie the knot without actually plotting a graph of if their lives flow together or if they are totally apart.

Waking up this morning and looking at the mirror I could not help but shake the feeling that you are farther away from me today than you have ever been. Funke is fun but I know she is not you, she loves facebook and twitter way too much to even listen to the subtle messages I have sent all this while her about getting ready to be serious. Heck she is not even capable of seeing past her nose and her very next venture......alone I must say which makes me wonder.......does she think I would be sitting around here waiting for her? Needless to mention the countless times my trust has been betrayed, these days I dont even bother to check whats going on. That bridge is burned, if she does turn out to be you I'll be......

So now I have decided to apply a more scientific and thought out approach in my search for you, I will now focus on the qualities that make a successful relationship first before ever plunging into another crazy time wasting venture (God help me stop looking at hips and all those very good things a man likes to enjoy). For now all girls under the age of 24 are out of it, I am sure you are older than that now. Not that I have anything against that age group but if I am to increase my chances of meeting you I need to do a little bit of math. You see my experience has shown that 9 out of 10 girls in that age group do not even know what it means to have a man in their life talk less of keeping one. They are carried away by the beauty of their youth, they think men would toast them forever. My hope is that by eliminating this age group I would have come a step closer to finding you.

I hope by now you would be mature enough to control yourself and know how to set the priorities in your life. I loved computers, heck I still do but you see my dear I knew that my chances doing that in school would not give me that job you think I ought to have especially here in Nigeria. I put my head down and did something I know would feed me and I can tell you now I can afford all the gadgets I want.  So when we do meet, please do well to humour me about your dreams to be a Victorias secret model, but let it stay as it is just a dream. Do well to tell me about your dreams to have a charity and help motherless babies all around the world, but also do well to tell me you would do anything for your family when you have one even if it means sacrificing these things. You see my dear all I am trying to say is let your dreams be in syntax, when you see that I am ready to settle in two years do not say you want to do a 4 year PHd first, your certificate can always come later in life. What is certain is that I would not wait around.

I have and I am still working hard to make sure that life is comfortable for me, you and our kids. My ambition is enough to send a kite to the moon so please if you are that ambitious too, please kindly tone it down. Your time would come and I would gladly seat back and watch you trot around everywhere but that not until you and I have tried our very best to give our kids all the attention they would need to be successful in life. In return for this which you would give to me I pledge to try and make you the happiest woman in this world, with all the respect that you deserve as the mother of my kids and my wife.

Honestly though I am very close to crossing the Rubicon, I would wake up and try one day as a time as I have been doing now. Try not to keep me waiting longer.

Sincerely Yours,
Your Future Husband.