2. did you have an imaginary friend? what were they like? describe them in detail and why they served a purpose in your life. i had 2, their names were louie and green dale. They were both girls and i can tell you what they looked like almost exactly. ryan [molly's younger brother] had a spirit of sorts named pineo and sean [molly's older brother... and oh, hi, sean... hope you don't mind i shared this bit of info] had a tribe of Indians...yes, a tribe.
did i have an imaginary friend? hell, i have an imaginary boyfriend... of course i had imaginary friends.
my very first imaginary friend was patrick nathan. he moved in with my family when we lived in a 1.5 bedroom, 1 bathroom shithole just down the street from my preschool. his parents were on "very long trips" so being his best friend, i offered to let him live with us until they got back. i was 3, and he was 3 and a half. this is a very important distinction at this age.
patrick nathan had dark brown, straight hair and vibrant light-green eyes. where i was a dainty flower of a boy, he was the rough-and-tumble type. he always had a scab to examine or a bug in a jar to torture.
it's obvious to me what role patrick nathan played in my life... he let me explore the parts of being a boy that i was very uncomfortable with. i hated being dirty, but patrick nathan loved to explore ditches and under porches and the darkest corners of my great grandmother's less-than-dry cellar. i avoided injury at all costs, but patrick nathan climbed tall trees and swung from their branches, he rode his bike really fast and sometimes with no hands, and jumped on the bed just like the 3 little monkeys. i feared everything from large dogs to clowns, but patrick nathan maintained composure in the dark, didn't even blink at the cockroaches or termites that staged a coup in our house, or worry that the milk in his cereal was just about to go bad.
patrick nathan was the boy i knew i was supposed to be but couldn't figure out how to be.
luckily, he was a patient teacher... i, his dedicated student of 23 years.
the others... well, they weren't as emotionally involved as patrick nathan. while he was my best friends, the other cast members of brett's imagination were mere bit players, serving very distinct purposes in very specific situations. there was stacie. the angel who ran next to our car during long trips to softball tournaments or tennessee or disney world only taking flight during stretches of the trip with no fields or lots of fences... her long, blond ponytail whipping behind her. there was captain marshanks. i don't know if i thought of him as an alien, but it is certainly the best word to describe what he was... pink-skinned, very rotund, slightly gelatinous. captain marshanks wasn't a frequent playmate, but he never missed a game of "spaceship" or "mars". there was princess ingrid and maltanian, royalty from skelvania. mr. burbing, who owned a grocery store. mama jessop and her twins stell and germany. and chauncy, a strange friend who was both a monkey like creature and a robot, depending upon the game being played.
all of my other imaginary friends never got the attention that i gave patrick nathan. i made my parents get him meals. he got his own pillow in the bed. i even recall buying him birthday and christmas presents a couple of years.
he was real to me.
and parts of him still are.
posted by brett @ 5:15 PM
3 Comments:
A psych major could have a field day with you...heehee! Delightful names for the ol' see-through besties...I enjoy every one of them and would have surely played with each. As they are a product of your imagination, I am certain that they were charming, good looking and ever so well dressed! According to my mom, one day she closed the door of the car and Sean screamed bloody murder b/c she had locked some of the Indians in the car. That bitch...never looking out for the tribe :-) haha
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