7 Sweet Life Lessons Unicorn Store (Almost) Teaches Us

While most of the third pamphlet is about loving energies, a close read reveals that the last section is actually about being alone. It states that unicorns "value their personal time and space," and that proper unicorn care requires one to "build a respect for their glory and power" without completely neglecting them. In other words, love can't be so overwhelming as to stand in the way of the unicorn's independence.

This is actually really good advice when dealing with people, particularly those who are trying to work on the manifestation of a dream. There's a difference between isolation and taking some time to experience self-care within the safety of your own personal bubble. Kit, however, fails to exemplify this idea. The only good decision she makes on her own is giving up the unicorn, and - as previously discussed - the muddled symbolism calls into question whether that was actually a great idea at all. Other decisions she makes on her own, such as what to eat or how to pitch a vacuum cleaner, are downright terrible.

All of Kit's other major decisions are made for her, usually in a very unhealthy way. Her parents shouldn't be upset when they think their 29-year-old daughter is moving out of the house, they should be upset because they think she's only moving as far as the backyard. Kit doesn't even design the stable herself, so moving into it would still be a decision that she only made because Virgil enabled it.

Even when not making a decision, Kit's alone time is usually pretty depressing. She gets drunk and talks to her Care Bears. She sits alone watching TV and eating junk food. She eats at the restaurant where she got into an argument with Virgil. Personal space is great, but Unicorn Store prints that message in a pamphlet with no actual demonstration. When Kit's not being codependent, she's isolating. There's never any middle ground.