Imaginary Friends Are Easy to Interact With

What is the purpose of having imaginary friends? Coming from someone who has an overactive imagination that has issues with actual people, I'd say they are beneficial for many creative outlets. Even if I have executive function, I would create something different inspired by an imaginary friend or two.

However, I didn't start my creative journey with that in my mind, in the past. Throughout my life, I was a perfectionist. I still am. I struggle with perfecting everything and I usually blame it on Happy Gonzales, my imaginary friend. But not anymore. At first, she was quite a handful, given that she was a cartoonish version of the little girl who once bit my finger too hard when I was a little kid.

I didn't get along with Happy throughout my youth, and my early 20s. But, as I am currently in my mid-20s, I knew she had potential in being part of my creative works. I evolved her into a Plotagon character for my animated web series, Dr. Camay's Slice of Life. Here's her in the first episode.

I since used the Plotagon character version of Happy for an episode of my podcast, The Cristobal Martinez Podcast, and, as part of my hobbies, flipnotes.

Here are two collage photos that feature Happy Gonzales, in which I made with Shuffles by Pinterest:
The latter image is my favorite of her appearance.

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