Comments on: Imago

By: sahana

sahana — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:55:25 +0000

truly said! Purely Virtual friends ARE imaginary.

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:00:32 +0000

Surag, its not a common name? where did she get it from? its truly surreal, but its good that you guys understand.. i wonder whether all parents do, and if so, how they deal with it… thanks for sharing..
I, for one, won’t blame you for stealing calvin stuff :]

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:55:04 +0000

Heh. Calvin has huge benchmarks as far as evil goes, so I wont compare
hmm, have never tried that in a book, but no, i dont think it’d work for me..
some real people are unidimensional and boring in some company, i like to believe that they haven’t yet found the things that gets them impassioned, or the conversation was not about those things
amazing stuff you shared though, thanks for sharing

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:49:41 +0000

like i said in a previous comment, i thought it was purely ’shy kids’ territory, but apparently its not so..

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:47:58 +0000

need not be a fad, check later comments.. there are sometimes real reasons for imaginary friends

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:47:04 +0000

true, in many ways

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:44:58 +0000

real people, across distances, and then time, would be imaginary in way too?

By: manuscrypts

manuscrypts — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:40:50 +0000

i think it could be a whole lot of reasons, from what i read in other comments, though i also subscribed to that ’shy person’ thought… in many ways, purely virtual friends are imaginary too?

By: Vijay

Vijay — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:49:40 +0000

My daughter Pranati turned 4 today. She found an imaginary friend Surag when she was two. Surag’s mother’s name was Sudha ( i used to to talk from home to a lady in Pune who wrote content for us). As parents, we took Surag very seriously. Once while on our way to Linking road she had placed surag on my lap in the rick. A few minutes later when she was sleepy i asked her to put her head on my lap-”arre” she reacted “surag is already sleeping there na.”! Surag quietly disappeared until last November when our second child Dhyan came home. Now Surag had a baby sister too! With the ebbing of sibling rivalry, Surag too doesnt feature in the conversation so much. But childhood is a surreal and a real experience–the characters in my stories are given names by her from some strange ancient sounding language. Malati and I recognize our own creative childhood and attempts to come to terms with the big bad world. And we are happy to hold her hand through it:-)
I can’t wait to introduce Calvin to her. Will probably steal her copies (or will it be e-books on netbooks for her?:-)

By: Shefaly

Shefaly — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:27:02 +0000

I was never a shy child. I was endlessly curious and talkative. The adults and kids around me could not always keep up so I had (to invent) a coterie of imaginary friends with whom I talked for hours. My dad has captured in photos various themes in my “conversations” with these “friends”. I even dressed up and played different voices. Sometimes we had milk and biscuits. Sometimes we discussed homework. Or ran spelling competitions (pause for a second to think about the profundity of competing with only oneself and nobody else!). And if you think calvin is evil, spare a thought for my dad who had to deal with me. I was sometimes given instant coffee and sugar to beat to a white mix, for many adults, just to keep me busy on days when it was too hot to let me to keep going downstairs and back up again, or to let me sit on the guava tree in my step-grandparents’ house. Most of the real people turn out to be so unidimensional and boring. And imaginary friends are no different from characters in a book with whom we have a private dialogue when we immerse ourselves in a book.