It's Tickle The Hand again, and I bet you've been wondering what exactly does my name mean. We'll when I was a lad, my brother and I used to hang around each other because we lived in the middle of nowhere, so on the times where we couldn't go outside and when we would get bored of the house, we would create imaginary, yes, indeed,... "Imaginary Friends".
However, this was more of a personification to an inanimate object. Tickle The Hand was indeed one of our hands that would become a third party as it were to our dynamic duo. He could go from one hand to another and it didn't matter who's hand Tickle decided to take the life of.
Tickle The Hand was, is, as I look back on him, the equivalent of a hand puppet, literally... It dawned on me that Tickle actually showed us ways of creating different emotions with our hands particularly puppets. This lead to creating voices for Tickle, which lead to the essentials to give life to almost any kind of in animate, or muted object. It really came in handy when it came to reading stories.
Now, i'm an Communication Arts Major with a minor in theater, hoping one day work and perform with puppets. It may be a bit strange, but I find it a little humorous of what benefits of creating an imaginary friend at home can lead to in one's future. So don't discourage kids from making one up, it might help them later in life. It sure helps with being bored. This is Tickle The Hand saying, "Go forth, and share your stories with any imaginary friends you've created."
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