Dana Fairbanks was a 23 year old who had just taken one of the biggest risks of her life.  She had it made at home, her Dad ran a very successful Construction Management company and was months from retiring leaving it all to his highly capable daughter.  Dana had always aspired to one day take over her Dad’s company but over the past year she’d become uncomfortable with the idea and all that it stood for.  Her future was mapped out, run “Fairbanks CM”, never leave her cotton wool padded home town,  live in the luxury home her parents had bought for her 2 years ago which was conveniently a five minute walk from their slightly bigger but equally as lavish pad.  She knew that life didn’t suit her, she often got pissed off with all the local gossip that got blown out of proportion like the Holmes getting a new car or the Jacobs new puppy or even that night last July where Cynthia Davison’s husband was seen in the pub when surely he should have been home for dinner.  The whole situation was pathetic, she wanted more… much more.  Dana knew that lots of people would look at her life and been envious of what she had, but they couldn’t see that past the material possessions and pretentious acquaintances there was nothing there… nothing to envy.

It took Dana four months to pluck up the courage to air these feelings to her family.  She sat them down, watching their worried faces turn into looks of somewhere between embarrassment and ignorance.  She knew that instead of being happy for her they would be more concerned about what to tell people, god knows when the news got out it would be talk of the deprived little village for the next 10 years!  Dana had made the decision to travel, see the world, and find what she wanted.  She knew for sure that her life was not meant to be lived in this little bubble where she’d grown up, it was her task to make her own foot prints in the sand and discover herself, her passions and what she wanted.  She tried her best to explain her motives to her family and they tried their best to understand, not wanting to push their only daughter away.