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It is not just value in a capitalist society. Form the article, it seems she has a happy relationship with her husband and 6 children. She is able to do somet
by RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y ago
It is not just value in a capitalist society.
Form the article, it seems she has a happy relationship with her husband and 6 children.
She is able to do something that she truly loves and is good it (designing toys, which the article mentions gives her euphoria).
She has brought joy to thousands ( if not millions) of children through her work.
Herb toys are actually beneficial to children in terms of stimulating their imagination and creativity unlike a lot of other things that are marketed to children.
Even apart from the money, she has had a good life. And it seems, from the article, that she has embraced the way she is (both the good and the bad) and has found peace with it.
- watwut 6y agoShe called it dark side. And by the sound of it, she would happily do without dark side. Which is why she finally went to therapy. > She battled eating disorders, exercise addiction, obsessive-compulsive tendencies, a nagging sense of worthlessness, doubts that life had any meaning or purpose, and the routine emergence of suicidal thoughts. [...] By junior high she’d learned how to starve herself. [...] suffered a mental breakdown and seriously considered suicide That happy marriage and kids were heavily affected too. Yes she loved them. Read this: > It was imperative for them to be the very best athletes, brightest students and most popular of their peer group to ensure my sense of wholeness,” she writes, rather than — as she puts it — “choosing to be average.” She was not happy nor in peace with herself. She was deeply unhappy, using activity and perfectionism to prevent mental descent into darkness.