Because my grandfather spoke very quietly and very gravelly, I came to believe that we were born with a limited supply of speech and if we used it all up we'd be mute at the ends of our lives. I began trying to conserve words, as though they were a limited resource.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that I could control the weather... I had limited success— Mark
- I used to think that in public toilets, the cleaning lady actually lived in the supply cupboard.Anon
- I used to think you could go to jail just by saying a word wrong during a speech.Anon
- I don't know why, but for some reason I thought that blinking your eyes powered your speech.Anon
- When I was little I USED to THINK that hair grows by the ends.— Sirin
- I used to believe that sky ends at the horizon and by crossing it we can go to another world..— Debasish Satapathy