i went to a high school reunion a couple of years ago and realized the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the most interesting now. and the ones who were popular are dull and boring frankly. serving the punch at the punch bowl. you know. but, i mean, you know, you can kind of laugh about it now but in retrospect at the time i read you were writing suicide notes in poem form. yeah. i never attempted, thankfully, but the thought was in my mind constantly. coming home from dealing with bullying at school and then dealing with bullying at home as well. so i often spent time in my room and my escape was music. if it weren t for having a guitar or a pen and paper to write it out and get it out of my head and out of my being, i m not sure if i would have made it through. i would have been one of these tragic stories. daniel, first of all, i got to say it takes a lot of guts to actually say, you know, i used to bully people. so i appreciate you being here. you no longe
and you know, you go through phases and things. and instead of accepting differences, i think kids are i went to a high school reunion a couple of years ago and realized the kids who were the most unusual in high school are the most interesting now. and the ones who were most popular are dull and boring, frankly. serving the punch at the punch bowl. you know. but i mean you can kind of laugh about it now in retrospect but at the time i read you were writing suicide notes in poem form. yeah. i never attempted, thankfully, but the thought was in my mind constantly. coming home from dealing with bullying at school and then dealing with bullying at home as well. so i often spent time in my room and my escape was music. if it weren t for having a guitar or a pen and paper to write it out and get it out of my head and out of my being, i m not sure if i would have made it through. i would have been one of these tragic stories. daniel, first of all, i got to say it takes a lot of g
so i appreciate you being here. you no longer do bully people. but at the time that you did, what why do you think you did it? i did it because i thought it made me happier. i thought taking somebody else s power would just add on to mine. so it actually made you feel powerful? yeah. i felt like people looked up to me, and i felt like i always had crowds, you know, laughing with me at the victim. and it just it felt good. did you ever worry about being bullied yourself? i had been bullied a little bit. about a year or two prior to when i started bullying, but it wasn t serious enough. i wasn t hurt too bad. but the fact that you had power over others made you feel good. oh, definitely. and, crystal, you must have just felt powerless. yeah. it definitely steals you of any kind of confidence and power that you may have had. you know, it s it s just such
so i appreciate you being here. you no longer do bully people. but at the time that you did, what why do you think you did it? i did it because i thought it made me happier. i thought taking somebody else s power would just add on to mine. so it actually made you feel powerful? yeah. i felt like people looked up to me, and i felt like i always had crowds, you know, laughing with me at the victim. and it just it felt good. did you ever worry about being bullied yourself? i had been bullied a little bit. about a year or two prior to when i started bullying, but it wasn t serious enough. i wasn t hurt too bad. but the fact that you had power over others made you feel good. oh, definitely. and, crystal, you must have just felt powerless. yeah. it definitely steals you of any kind of confidence and power that you may have had. you know, it s it s just such
so i appreciate you being here. you no longer do bully people. but at the time that you did, what why do you think you did it? i did it because i thought it made me happier. i thought taking somebody else s power would just add on to mine. so it actually made you feel powerful? yeah. i felt like people looked up to me, and i felt like i always had crowds, you know, laughing with me at the victim. and it just it felt good. did you ever worry about being bullied yourself? i had been bullied a little bit. about a year or two prior to when i started bullying, but it wasn t serious enough. i wasn t hurt too bad. but the fact that you had power over others made you feel good. oh, definitely. and, crystal, you must have just felt powerless. yeah. it definitely steals you of any kind of confidence and power that you may have had.