J.M. Synge, an Irish playwright, was similarly pampered by his mother, and another, Samuel Beckett, admitted that he was what his mother's " savage loving has made me" .
A mere six weeks later, on March 26th, tens of thousands of those pampered employees were given notice that they would be thrown out of work because of the covid-19 pandemic.
There were pain and bewilderment in her face, the bewilderment of a pampered child who has always had her own way for the asking and who now, for the first time, was in contact with the unpleasantness of life.
Secondly, there is something very powerful in our need to be pampered and looked after, It's almost as if we return to being a baby, when everything was done for us and we felt safe and secure.