Barbie

I had no strong feelings in support of or against Barbie before or after reading this essay. Everyone has their hobbies and barbies are just one of them. People use hobbies to cope with things, like the woman whose son died, and some people just do it to meet other like-minded people, like the veterinarian. This essay was important for the author because she tried to do something that she had never done before (go to a barbie convention) and found some sort of meaning in it. That sort of thing really opened her eyes towards things "out of her comfort zone", because she now has a respect to something she wouldn't have been "caught dead at" before.