Brad Guy

Shane Crawford went to my school and everyone loved him as this idol of the school and this former alum.

But I could never ever relate to what the school really stood for, which was athletics.

So I didn't really feel like I fit in, but I very quickly learned how to be that social chameleon and how to assimilate and be one of the boys and one of the lads.

Thankfully, that's not really my vibe anymore.

But high school was just very intense, very emotional.

But I do have treasured memories and I was able to make friends at the time, but I wasn't really able to express myself.

And that's still a lesson I'm trying to learn from the constant concealing of who I was in high school.

to the person I am now.

And it's a crazy place to go to a private Catholic boarding school in the country as the person I was.

I've backpacked through Asia and Europe and I've fallen in love overseas and traveled the world just to meet some random person on the internet.

I've gone around Australia.

Even now I'm like, I'll just get another credit card and I'll just go to Europe next year because I want to, which I literally did last week because I really want to go to Eurovision and I didn't really have the money.

So I'm like, I'll just get a credit card and just achieve that dream.

Who cares?

I would say I've always been that way.

And then the accident, I lost that.

I lost that zest for life for a very long time.

And I feel like it's only really coming full circle now, the past two, two and a half years, where I've really just buckled down and gone, you know what, it's been 10 years since I nearly lost my life in numerous ways.

I owe it to myself to

do what I truly want to do and I'll figure out the rest later.