His name is Sean Worthington III.
Sean was born to a wealthy family. You'd assume that he'd be happy, but he never seemed to be. He had everything he ever could want, but he was just never truly happy. His parents loved him, and he always felt that love, but it made no difference.
He was popular in school, and excelled in languages. He dated, but never really found that he loved the girls, and he found that the relationships never made him any happier either, so he always was the one to end it.
You'd never know it, looking at him, that he was unhappy. He was always the center of attention, and always upbeat and joking around, and he thought oftentimes that he was happy, just not as happy as he wanted to be, and so, he thought of himself as unhappy.
He had grown up in Connecticut, and he felt that maybe that was the reason he was unhappy. The people that he tended to associate with, were much like himself, or well, people in the same financial situation as him. They were all well off, and all not in need of anything. They were spoiled, and they were pompous. All of them didn't earn what they had, yet they acted as through they were better than others. They disgusted him, and although he was friends with a lot of these people, he secretly hated them.
When he graduated from high school, he went to Yale, as was expected of him by his parents. After all, he was a legacy.
Although his parents could afford it, they decided that he should stay at home and commute. This was odd for a freshman to do, especially a legacy, and a son of one of the university's largest donors, however they thought he wasn't ready to live on his own, and somehow convinced him to stay at home.
Sean had been hoping for something different at Yale than what he had been used to, he wasn't sure why. He had hoped to meet new and different people with different outlooks on life. Rather, he found that a lot of the people from his last school were now his classmates at Yale, and that all the students from his past school with less money than his family had, and others like them were absent. He hadn't realized their slight influence at his past school, but now, without them, he realized that they gave the only bit of difference in a sea of upper level arrogant snobs.
he suffered through the first year. He both thanked and hated his parents for making him live at home. On the bright side, he didn't have to interact with all those fools, but on the other hand, he hadn't made many friends, since he was off campus.
he joined the crew team, because that's what you do when you want to be part of a sport at an Ivy League school. Also, because his father had rowed when he was at Yale. Through the team, Sean made some friends, whom he felt weren't as stuck up as the rest of the student body, however he still didn't feel at home.
After a year and a half, Sean transferred out of Yale to Rutgers in Jersey. He had rowed against them a few times, and he had made friends with some of the other rowers and saw that there was definitely something different about the school than what he was used to. It took a lot of convincing before he convinced his parents, but ht eventually made them believe that it was a good opportunity for him.
Rutgers was different. The people were different, the school was different, everything was different. It seemed "grittier", he thought. The people seemed more real, and there were people of every class there, and it felt useful studying a language. When he was studying languages at Yale, he was studying them with a bunch of privileged white kids, where he would never need, or have the opportunity to speak them outside of the classroom. Here, however, he would only need to walk a few blocks, and he could speak with native speakers, if he so chose, or, he could just speak to many of the international students, or those who were first or second generation.
While Sean had great experience at the school, and had many great experiences, including a short stint on their school's crew team, having a radio show, and being a Resident Advisor, he still didn't feel truly happy, and he oftentimes felt that, regardless of the class of the students, they seemed all still very uptight. He didn't feel that he truly fit there. He had studied abroad, and he had felt comfortable in other countries and locations, and started to think of working internationally when he graduated, but chose to stay for graduate school.
After graduate school, he once again went in search for a place to feel comfortable and more appreciated.
Despite people telling him he was crazy, Sean moved to Alaska and is currently still on his quest for self-enlightenment, while living in a place, where at times, he is too uptight.
Oh Boy!
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