Annie Bot

by Sierra Greer

Personality, she learns, is the combination of how a person changes and remains consistent over time.

She has been happy here, and anxiously miserable, but she has never been free.

Perhaps that’s what unhappiness is. Comprehension. Understanding how she’s failed.

She wishes she had not identified her unhappiness. Being unhappy implies that she has a capacity to be happy, but she does not have the right to be happy.

“We start with being civil, and then with being kind. Annie’s not human, but you are, Doug. You have the capacity to love and forgive.”

“You have a chance here to become a more insightful, more compassionate person. That is within your power.

But he doesn’t own what’s inside you. Nobody owns that but you.”

It’s what I remind myself all the time: Fulfillment starts with being truly honest with yourself. Not anyone else. Yourself. And that’s harder than you might think.”