Week 4 : Beloved Toy

My favorite toys growing up were my Barbies. I used to play with them all the time. I only stopped to eat dinner and then came right back to where I left off. A lot of my friends never liked Barbie's, so I never really played with them when my friends came over. I was all alone till much later in life and then I found a friend to play Barbies with. We'd hide in my basement, and play Barbie's in the corner of the laundry room, careful to close the door behind us so that no one knew. It was embarassing to still be playing, but it brought us back to those days when life was simple and easy. It gave us the opportunity to get out of our lives and into a life we created. We could "live" any life we could imagine, even if it was for only a short time. It was our way of dealing with our problems. Ignoring them felt so much easier than dwelling on them and pondering them all the time. Our lives were simple in that dimly lit laundry room with our Barbie's in hand.