Laugh At Myself

I AM kENOUGH & I “KEN” LAUGH AT MYSELF — Ken @barbiethemovie | unknown DA | Sound On 🔊🔊🤣🔊

Having re-emerged from my travels, to the “real world” [for now], I finally got to watch @barbiethemovie to see what the fuss was all about!!! And, it didn’t disappoint. I found it to be an intriguing depiction of the “human condition”. An accomplished, multifaceted script with innumerable layers of meaning that uncover themselves to you the more times you watch it. Additionally, the stylised set, I can only imagine, was a designers dream to create! One of the facets that the film shows us, is that we are “enough” as we are & that we don’t require “material or ego boosting add-on’s” in order to live life fully & be happy. In fact, superficial “add-on’s” only serve to make us unhappy & uncomfortable in life if we persist at upholding the “farce” of trying to “fit into” a societal matrix that might not align with “what & who we actually are” = #beyou #doyou for you & no-one else!

Separately, what the @barbiethemovie can teach us about “human development” is discussed in an engaging article published by psychologist @ginasimmonsdoc [link below], where she explains that Barbie and Ken’s journey in the film, from “Barbie Land” to the “real world” depicts valuable lessons about human “psycho-social development” in our society as it exists today. Arguing that the film demonstrates how “identity crisis” serves as a “right of passage” in the quest for “an authentic self”. Hence, important to remember that YOU ARE ENOUGH JUST AS YOU ARE, with or without the validation of others. Furthermore, being able to admit that you “KEN” laugh at yourself is STRONG!

LINK TO THE FULL ARTICLE: Search “What the Barbie Movie Can Teach Us About Human Development” by Gina Simmons Schneider PhD @ psychologytoday.com | @psych_today