I used to believe that wars lasted for five minutes and can remember, age 5 or 6, being totally shocked when I realised that they could last for years and years.
A childhood belief about wars
others believed things like this
- I used to think all wars lasted only 4 years, like college or something. Anon
- I thought that 1983 went on for 3 years - had to ask my sister who decided how long a year lasted.— Sally
- I thought that wars had to last four years... just like high school and college.— A. Falk
- I used to believe that it was the Star Wars "Tri-ology" instead of the Stars Wars "trilogy".— keith Key
- I used to think that world wars's were called war wars. So then World War II became War War II.— Maria
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela