Growing up, I never lifted a finger at home. No one ever expected me to clean up my room or help with the dishes. I slept my way through school and never studied. Why should I? I figured that, now that I've graduated, I would just come back home and continue sleeping half the day and watching TV for the other half. I've always gotten whatever I needed and wanted, and I guess I just expected it to stay that way.
But now I'm standing staring at the ashes of my childhood home. My family is gone. The house is gone. And apparently, all the money is gone. My dad never told me he lost the business, never told me that the accounts were empty. And they didn't even have insurance.
Now I realize that getting, and doing, whatever I wanted, was the worst thing for me. Look at me! I haven't been happy for years. Why didn't I realize it a long time ago? All I want to do is flop down on the couch, watch TV by myself, and eat chips. What kind of life is that? I need to make a big change. I have no idea how, but I know that I have to. I don't have a choice.
Annabella Sjoqvist is my founder. I imagine her as a person who has always been lazy, because she's spoiled. But after a family tragedy that has left her alone and penniless right when she's graduated high school, she goes through a drastic personality change. Her ambition is to get in shape (aspiration: body builder). She's got to give up her lazy ways in order to survive, though she still struggles with eating too much and prefering to just be alone at home (traits: active, glutton, loner).
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