hey, calling all imaginary friends

last night, i stumbled upon the quote, "writer's block is when your imaginary friends won't talk to you."

in high school i had this friend, and we were pretty close. or at least i would go to her house a lot and we'd talk all the time. now, i kinda think it was just because we were always together that we deluded ourselves into thinking we were close. anyways, first semester of college she was having a bit of trouble making friends of her own or something. i went to college with one of my best friends and we both managed to make a bunch of friends (most of whom i kind of drifted away from as college went on. now i mainly have IT friends cause we're all on the same campus, and none of my non IT friends are arab). anyways, when i wasn't complaining about a lack of friends with her, she says with disdain, "well, yeah, that's because you're not the only one from our class there." let the record show that she had another girl from our class, half the boys, and a bunch of other people she knew through family and friends. that annoyed me a little, so i go on to say that we made a lot of friends that aren't from high school. she laughs in disbelief and says all condescendingly, "imaginary friends don't count." or something along those lines. and she was dead serious. when she came to visit us at school later she was honestly shocked to find that we were hanging out with real people. it was a tad insulting. i mean, i know i'm not a social butterfly, but that is completely by choice. i know how to make and keep friends and actually have good people skills. i dont really hang out or talk to her at all anymore, for several reasons. her mom, dad, and brother are still awesome people, though.

my dad thought it was hilarious and is now constantly asking me about my imaginary friends. it became a sort of inside joke between us.

anyways, the point of that story was that now, it kinda seems true. not that i only have imaginary friends, but that i have some. remember the quote up there?? about the writer's block?? yeah... well, at times, my characters really do seem like imaginary friends. i know stuff about them like their birthday, favorite book or song or food, how they felt their first day of school, that never make it into any stories. i know what they'd say in different situations and what they'd think of different things. i have fallen in love with half of them and truly despise others.

so maybe that old friend was actually right about something.

*Imaginary Friends - Nada Surf