When I was a kid, my calling card was "imagination".
Perhaps it's because I loved reading through the minutiae published in newspapers. I saw TV schedules. I saw basketball scores. Those sort of things. The next thing I know, I was making schedules for fictional television networks. At six in the evening,
News Squad, with three news anchors ending the program with "...and this is
News Squad!" while pointing towards the camera, much like Mike Enriquez and Karen Davila did on the very early days of
Saksi, when it ran for just fifteen minutes and aired at a quarter to six.
I doodled newspapers as a kid, and if they weren't about what was happening in school, it was about things happening in this alternate reality planet on my head. Somehow I got my classmates in it, too. They had versions of themselves on the lands I made up, just as I had a version of myself. It's hard to explain it here without getting embarrassed now, because I will get detailed, although in hindsight I can never really get detailed, because knowing what I know now, there are a lot of cracks you have to fill, much like the rotation of the planets, and how concepts from this actual world can exist on that world.
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