RIGHT HERE.

dear 18 year old me,

right now, the abusers you've been trapped with for 18 years, have failed at desperately trying to make you the abusive "church leader"'s and extremely fake and manufactured religious-presenting "family"'s scapegoat. you've secretly accumulated enough money to get a hundred miles away. i'm telling you and confirming that you will later be THOUSANDS of miles away from their lies and constant delusional narcissism. not hundreds of miles. thousands. over lands and over seas. the abuse, gaslighting, verbal and psychological and physical and above all sexual forms of abuse to a minor they've done to you daily for 18 years, while pretending to be spiritual, is merely a chapter that sets you up for drive, fearlessness, unfazeable determination, success, and the ability to inspire real people in real life. and a perspective for not only reading people, but for confidence, and for charisma. you will see places they will never see. sights, sounds, tastes, textures. people. clouds. sunlight. trees. you are going to a hundred places, far, far, far away, and you're going to meet thousands of people, and influence and help people like they never ever could even if they tried- because an abuser is not a friend, a sibling, a leader, a "missionary," or a family member. reality speaks for itself, because that's the fact of objective truth. and you will use many facts. their other victims- like their other, older offspring- will never stop mindlessly carrying on the abuse they were exposed to. this is, in fact, one of the things you've already seen and you've already known. and for that experience, i'm sorry. but the word "sorry" won't move you- you will move you. they are reactive, spineless, toxic. they are complete liars; abusers towards minors. but your mind is stronger. you will write and speak and tell the true story of your childhood and the five people who pretended to follow a religious christian "faith." you will detect most liars and most abusers right away, because you saw it daily for 18 years. the distance you travel is merely a mirror to how you went from an abused young person silenced, to being able to perform in front of entire crowds, to leading entire rallies for human rights with thirty-five thousand people all right at your back. people will thank you. people will admire you. people will confirm that all the things they've brainwashed into you are complete lies, confirming all the things about them that you already suspect deep down right now. there will be scars- because that is what narcissistic abusers do to their infant offspring throughout his or her early life- but you possess a mind so much stronger than even the most ridiculously disgusting forms of tactical brainwashing. you're about to write a hundred pages, and songs, where you are no longer trapped by older sick people who never accomplished one thing in their lives. write more songs. go more places. be the entire rebellion. because you will speak the truth when nobody else wants to.

danny, to 18 year old john daniel mier