Dear Tech
It's strange to think that a year ago, you were kicked out of the institute, fell into the coma after the meteor hit the city, and became part of a superhero team. That must have been a real big turn around for you.
I mean, you were a lot younger than the rest of the class when you first came to the institute. I remember people giving you a lot of grief because you were an anthrosapien and I recall them saying how you shouldn't have been accepted in there in the first place. When I first saw you, I had to admit I found it unusual for someone like you to just turn up in our class. But as time went on, I began to think that there was more to you than everyone knew.
For starters, while everyone else left for lunch or went home for that matter you always stayed behind to finish the project or assignments that have been set for us. I know that I always focused on my work, but I wished I had the same amount of focus as you. I wish I had the amount of energy, enthusiasm, and determination to finish my work as you have. And so when you present your findings to our mentors, everyone else would either be jealous because they couldn't have been as deep with their scientific explanations, or just try to put your morale down so they could at least absorb some of your confidence into them. But for me, I would stare in awe and wonder how on Earth you managed to work all thoses formulas and evaluations yourself.
But you always seem to keep yourself away from everyone else, and not making the effort to socialise with people. I suppose if everyone else stay away from you, I suppose you do keep yourself to yourself. It must be really lonely for you to just try and get by all alone. And I know Jack and everyone else with his wise-cracks didn't help you as well. But I just followed them so I wouldn't be another victim. I feel so ashamed of myself when I look back on it now. In fact, I wish I could have been your friend and helped you with what you were trying to achieve. I wanted the same thing as you; to know everything there is to know about... well, everything. But I guess I was hanging around with the wrong people. They genuinely didn't thirst for knowledge because they wanted to like you do. But it's always the ones who do things for the right reasons that always gets put down. Was that why you completely ignored everyone after that incident with that Mallory Casey? Did you think everyone was blaming you for giving her ammunition of your knowledge, so that she could use the machine to take everyone else's knowledge away? Or was it because you were too afraid to do anything with everyone, incase they tried to do similar things like she did?
I think you'll find it the worst time for me to say this to you, but it wasn't your fault that she was going to do that. You didn't tell her to take everyone else's knowledge just for the sake of it. You didn't even know she was going to do it until the last minute. And even then, the mentors who were there appreciated you for stopping her malicious plans. You two were as clever as each other. It's just you two wanted to do different things with that knowledge. You wanted to use it to help everyone and society, and she wanted to use it for her own selfish needs. You can be given knowledge by someone, and you can even give the information you were just given to someone else. But you can't just take that knowledge away from someone. It's impossible because once it's there, it will always stay with you forever.
That was what I was hoping for when we heard you were one of the comatised victims. Some people in the institute said that it was such a big impact, that you could have lost your memory and everything you knew permanently. When they said that, I kept wishing so hard that it would never happen to you. I envied you having so much intelligence on you, I prayed that you would still have everything in your head intact by the time you woke up. So it was such a relief for me when we went into your place to see if you were there, researching on that meteor phenomena. You've still got that intelligence I admire. When I see you on TV with your friends saving the world, you inspire me to continue with my studies until graduation.
And I see you on TV working and talking to the other members of the superhero team. Whatever they've done or said made you open up yourself a little more. Plus, I always see you smile with confidence when I see the news. I'm so glad you're somewhere where you're able to unleash your true potential without any one critisising you.
Well I better get back to writing my essay. The dealine is in a few days time, and I want to do well for this unit. I hope you keep using your intelligence for the good of man kind. I will always be inspired by you as long as you do that. And maybe someday, we could get to know each other a little better like I wanted to a long time ago.
Yours sincerely, Hitoshi Kazaiyama