Omar Suleiman

I believe I'll be with her again.

I believe that everything I do that is good will be of benefit to her.

And I believe that it would make her proud.

And so as much as I miss her, as much as I am

fueled to do for her.

And so I continue that and that's kind of become part of my life.

It's been my life story as a child and as an adult.

It's been sort of the centerpiece of my life to do things that extend her and ultimately in the process hopefully benefit me because I believe that she's a woman who I pray is destined for paradise and I want to do the things that would get me there too.

Well, I feel like the facade of the material world

was made evident to me at a very young age.

Most children grow up and their parents wanna protect them from everything.

And I felt that too.

My mother wanted to downplay her own tragedy so that me and my brother could live a fruitful and fulfilling life.

My father wanted to protect us from

the hardship of her life so that we could live fulfilling lives.

He'd often be the only father on a field trip, even though he was a distinguished professor.

I mean, he was a busy man.

He was a very busy man, but he tried to show up at a field trip and tried to make our lives as normal as possible.

But in the process, we always understood that there was more to life than what other children were seeing it as.

And now I know that as an adult, there's more to life than what other adults see it as.