Barbie

I have always known Barbie as just a plain doll that young girls like to play with and dress up. One thing I did not know before reading this essay was that Barbie was such a big part of peoples lives. I also did not know that the value of Barbie dropped if she was taken out of the box. Before I read this essay, I was not a big fan of Barbie. To me, she always seemed to make girls self-concious about themselves. I felt like girls would compare themselves to Barbie and think that they needed to look "perfect" like her. After reading, I feel a little different in the fact that Barbie did have an impact on many peoples lives. Many of the people that the author talked to in the essay lived for Barbie and learned from her (which I find a little odd). But what I got out of the essay was that, I still think that if people are that passionate about something, then they should go for it and do what they love. I especially liked in the essay that the author changed her opinion of  Barbies. She went from knowing nothing about them to buying one at the end of the convention. That just shows that anything can be interesting no matter what kind of person you are. I think the most important part of this story was the lady that talked about her Barbie friends being there for her when her son died. This story can definitely help me as a writer by showing that it is always best to go into something with an open mind, even if you do think you are going to not enjoy it.