Sadness Is Just A Nigh Version Of Happiness

• Keyarn Egan, Grade 9
• Short Story
• 2021

They once said follow your dreams but what if your dream can never come true. I tried and tried to become what I wanted the most to be an actor ….but they told me every day of my life that I was useless and just to give up on my dream.

At the young age of 6, I told my mother the only parent I had that I wanted to become an actor but all she did was sneer in my face and say
"NO YOUR USELESS YOUR THE RESON I HAD TO GIVE UP ON MY DREAM" as she screamed those words at me my eyes started to fill up with tears. I slowly start to take steps backward as she stomps towards me sprouting more hurtful words. This would go on for many years and as you know a glow stick breaks before it starts to glows and I guess that I broke so much, I snapped. I went numb, I just gave up trying I just stopped struggling to reach my dream which seemed to be in a never-ending tunnel almost as if it was taunting me.

parents always told me to fear the dark and as I walking in the pouring rain I hoped I would never come out I wished that I would ever return to my home which had crushed my dreams and hopes into a million pieces almost like throwing a rock into the ocean but truly never knowing how far the rock can truly go before realizing its too late. I went almost half my life believing every hurtful word which was thrown my way.

I woke up the one day my life went to shambles the day I told my mother my dream. The day I lost everything. As I stumbled out of bed open up my window to let the light shine in. I start to get ready for the day of school, trying to be as quiet as possible as not to wake mother up. As I walk towards the school I start to see other students all laughing and pointing at me.
"OOHHH great hear we go again, " I thought as I kept my head down as people either laugh or sneer at me as I walk by I get to my locker and start to put my stuff away. My day goes on as usually get either laughed at or sneered at as I walk by. As I walk home in pain I walk past the park me and my mother once used to play at. I walk up to the door to my worst nightmare my mother and I expected to see her all I saw was a note
"I can't anymore I just cant having a child like you is unbearable so I'm leaving will pay for bills but that's it"
I broke down crying people always told me to follow my dreams but what if the dreams are only nightmares.