I just got home from the movies. Went to see “Dark Water”, from the author of “The Ring”. I used to be a big fan of thriller movies, I don’t think I am anymore. So back to “Dark Water”, it is a story about a mother and a daughter who end up living in a run-down apartment building. Some drama happenes in the apartment upstairs. Is it weird? Me doing a movie review? Well, I am not.
The movie inspired this post. In the movie, the little girl, Cesi, sees a ghost and everyone thinks it is just an imaginary friend. It caught my attention how the school teacher explains to the mother how it is very normal for children that age to have imaginary friends. Normal? Hmmm, so I thought about it a little bit more tonight and it seems that in most movies when kids have imaginary friends, they are not really “imaginary”! It is always some kind of a ghost or spirit.
I remember having an imaginary friend as a kid. For the longest time, I refused to think of Mona to be something I imagined. It has been a long time since I last thought about her, but now, when I do, I swear she was there. She wasn’t something I created, she was there. I remember talking to her, seeing and feeling her. We used to play together with my Barbie dolls. She wasn’t gone until the day we moved to our new house. AHAAAA, this will make you think, right? If I was imagining her, how come I stopped just as we moved away? How come she was never there when I traveled? When I went to school? She was, however, always there at home waiting to play with me. Getting scary? Hmm I am not sure. Maybe I am just mumbling because I am tired and it is almost bedtime! Well maybe.
I just can’t take the thought of this out of my mind. What if we all, who had imaginary friends as kids, were not imagining? What if our “imaginary” friends were spirits that lived with us? What if they are still living at the same place we used to see them? I wonder if the little girl living in our former house is Mona’s new friend? Ahhh I am thinking way too much, aren’t I?
I think it is time to go to bed. Oh, one more thing, Ariel Gade, the girl who played Cesi in the movie, looks a lot like me when I was younger. It is scary. I have some pictures where I look about 95% like Ariel. For some of you who are curious, check out her picture and you will get a feel on how I look. OK, bedtime for me.
Ok, I hate scary movies!
Now, you’ve put vivid thoughts in my mind.. *shudder*
Thank God I never had an imaginary friend.
good looking girl
i never had one 2 but maybe that true
if you look like here then u must be so cute
NWMH,
Now, I hate scray movies too
mido87,
Thanks.
cosi911,
Cute, yeh. Well, yeh I am cute ;P
wein shefti el movie.. its not out in kuwait yet!
let me tell u something, imaginary friends get for ppl with high IQ. and they get to u men el location, ya3ni when u left.. u made urself believe inna ur friend bel beit el thani! mafe shay esma ghosts! fe yananwa ew ens bas!
moe,
It is out in London.
so you think I have a high IQ? Thanks, but I still in favour for the spirits idea.
The movie was a disappointment…but going back to your imaginary friend you got me thinking too…my mom used to tell me I used to talk for hours with myself or my imaginary friend…but I don’t remember a thing! few years back she gave me a voice recorded tape of me talking…it’s not like I heard another voice in the tape other than mine but I swear the way I was talking as if I had a friend with me…weird stuff!!!
Little kids have the ability to see those kind of stuff… spirits n ghosts… if what u were sayin is true then it was a spirit… if there`s a little Gal now… she dont have to meet Mona… having an imaginary friend doesnt mean that u have a high IQ…. Cuz if it was a Djin u`d probably goin to be Possesed n wont be able to talk to us by now… Stick to the spirit idea Gal…. its a world beyond our world n we cant see it…. but some of em jus get a pass somehow…
JB,
Sheftay shloon? It is wierd!
anonymous,
That’s my point, I guess I am sticking to the spirit idea after all.
annon: a clarification:
Djins dont always try to possess u.They live in a different dimension.Like ppl there are two kinds evil and good.Most of them dont even bother u unless u take their space.They are very possesive abt their space.
For most part I might be wrong.
alot of analyzing and all different! same thing with Jelly Belly my mom said that I used to talk to myself, she ha videos which didn’t seem harmful, they dad thought I was cute when mom thought I was going crazy, I don’t see why I needed imaginary friends though, I had many when I was a kid, actually I could use an imaginary friend now! hehe
Sponta,
heheheh I think an imaginary friend now too.
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dont u think “kids” just need their time alone, nothing but time to themselves .. o 3ad kelwa7ed yebadi3 3ala kaifa 7azat-ha
imaginery friend for u, car models for me, barbie dolls for x-girl, so on and so forth
these days i really doubt ud find any kid like that ehny..
video games and tv, let alone the internet is taking over
its still the same concept though : time alone spent by kid with him/herself
tem,
if kids want some time alone, why would imagine people around them? As for kids nowadays, there are many kids, who has computer game, internet etc, who still have imaginary friends.
aww masha’Allah so cute!!
Cool deal.
Sincerely,
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