Sherryl
Perhaps it was the constant pressure placed upon her, or maybe it was her anxiety preventing her from having friends. But Sherryl Mayweather was not a happy person. It might not be obvious for a person who sees her on the bus, or when she meets up with her casual friends, but she was not happy. Was there anything bad happening in her life that may justify why she feels that way, no not really. Was there a traumatic experience that changed her as a person that made her the way she is? No. ever since she was born, Sherryl wasn’t happy. There were moments in which she experienced happiness, sure. But she was never genuinely happy. She wasn’t happy with her looks, herself, her social life, her career, her love life, her health, nothing about Sherryl made her happy about herself.
That's absurd, you may say. How can a person be born unhappy? Sherryl was born to good parents, in a good environment, sure they had moments of difficulty but it was never so bad that it would make sense why she is the way she is. Perhaps misery was dwelling in her heart from the moment she took her first breath, regardless of the reason, if there was one, Sherryl was not happy.
She didn’t let people know that though, if you were to ask someone about what they think about Sherryl, they’d say she's a nice and helpful person. That is if they know her at all, if you were to ask the people around her about her, many may respond with “who?”. Sherryl didn’t have many friends, and her few friends were like best friends, more like a grey area between acquaintance and a friend. But she considered them her friends, eleven if they were slightly less than that, because then she would have to realise that she has no friends, and she didn’t want to believe that.
You see, Sherryl wasn’t just unhappy, she was angry. At what you may ask, everything. Sherryl was angry at the world for being in the state that it is and doing nothing about it but getting worse. She was also mad at her “friends” because they'd hang out without her all the time. But most importantly, Sherryl was mad at herself, for being herself and being unable to change that. Sherryl didn’t take risks, because that could mean she might mess up and embarrass herself. Sherryl didn’t like change, because it never had a good long lasting effect on her, it was like gum. It was sweet and nice in the beginning but quickly became the same old flavourless thing in her life and she was back to her miserable self.
Sherryl hated herself, she does not remember a time where she loved herself or even liked it. Sherryl wasn’t happy because she was Sherryl. Perhaps if she was a Monica, or a Clara, she would like herself, but she was Sherryl. Sherryl was afraid of change, and that included herself.
So she was stuck as being Sherryl for the rest of her life, and so she was unhappy her whole life.
