My Dream Friend

My dream/fantasy friend right now is a person who is fluent or close to fluent in Māori and available for me to text them day and night with questions.

My texts would mostly be about whether things are in the A or O category.  

And another question would be...

Well, a lot of my practice consists of me talking to myself or the cats  Since I don't have anyone else to practice with. Anywhere...much less inside my house.

One thing I do sometimes is talk to our TV photo frames...point out things on the screen.

So for that, I'm not sure if I should say:

He manu tēnei.  (This is a bird)

OR

He manu tēnā (That near you is a bird)

He manu tērā (That over there, not next to you, is a bird).

It might be less of a language question and more of an existential question of my relationship to the TV screen.

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Thinking more about it....

The question would still exist if I was NOT talking to myself.

If someone else is in the room....

Well, I probably wouldn't say "This".

I would say "That".

But the bird would neither be near the other person nor away.

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Maybe it would depend on how close the other person is to the TV?

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Back to talking to myself:

I could probably go back and forth between tērā and tēnā depending on whether I want to pretend I'm talking to an entity in the room...about what we're both seeing on the screen OR if I want to pretend the TV is a person that I'm talking to.  

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Back to my fantasy-friend:

I want to clarify that I wouldn't expect this person to be at my beck and call.  They wouldn't need to have 24 hour availability.

But it would be the type of super comfortable friendship where I know they silence their phone at night, and I can text them without worrying I'm bothering them.  And they would answer me when they have the chance.  

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This fantasy would never become reality.

I would never stop worrying that I'm being a pest.  

Super Comfortable Friendship is a concept that doesn't fit into my existence.  

 


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