Hi there. My name is TJ Watt. I'm a 17 year old male from Victoria B.C. canada. I'm your typical Teenager who likes to skateboard and drive nice cars but I've always had an almost inner understanding I never knew how to explain. Mentally I think it separates me from some other kids my age. I never even knew about the idea of Buddhism until recently. In my comparative Civilization class at school we are researching it. The more and more I learn about Buddhism, the more and more it makes COMPLETE and TOTAL sense to me. I'm just getting to into it and feel I've finally found what I've been trying to explain to others and myself for the last year or so. This is almost exciting to me. From time to time I have written small free verse or maybe abstract poetry/ideas down. I will include them with this letter because I figured other people sent in story's, why not me. In almost each one of them there is something I can not explain. But after researching more of Buddhism I can find a diferent aspect of it to fit each wonder. It's almost like a question finally answered. I hope you like them.

P.S. I wrote these MUCH before I had any idea of the beliefs of Buddhism or anything to make me write like this other then my own pure thoughts.

Drift

I look out over this expanse,

So great I cannot comprehend what I see,

Like a great vision I see things dance,

Raging beyond this melting view......the great sea,

I stand alone,

Utter and complete abandonment,

Detached from the spirit it's self,

I walk away from my own being,

Look back and see nothing but a code,

I have now become exactly what I wanted,

Nothing,

But completely different from everyone else,

I am untouchable,

I am the perfect enigma.

The Freedom

You can never seem to find an explanation for it. It's there when nothing matters. You feel it when you're alone. You here nothing around you yet it's yelling. Feeding you information about what may come and where you might have come from. It will guide you. You wish it was real, something to communicate with. It knows you, your subconscious thoughts, your meaning. It is perfect in it's everyway except you don't know where the path starts. It's guidance is there for the perfect life of which is true. Now it is up too you.

Dust is bigger then you think

I'd love to just wander.

Take a bag, take me and walk.

I'll see everything, tell no one yet let everyone know what I feel.

You just don't know it.

My mind makes it's own music.

I can walk a lonely road between two mountain peaks winding through hot rays of the peaking sun.

Warm then cold.

It's the way I feel now yet a different situation.

I have no Idea where I am going yet I know that is where I have to go.

Once I get there it will be perfect. Like a pirate I will scavenge one like me. I will find THE.

We will continue until I have joined with everyone looking for the same release as I.

Just move, don't hesitate, everything that you will encounter needs to be.