As a child we lived only a short distance from a beach on the Queensland coast, Australia. When I was about 4 I used stand on the beach and gaze out over the sea to the horizon and imagine I could see tiny buildings and people, and thought it was America!
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I never used to take shower after going to the beach, because i thought that tans washed off right away.Anon
- I used to think that at night at the beach the government would turn off the waves.— Caitlin
- I used to believe that the foam that sometimes washes up on the beach was shark saliva... — Tiffany
- When I was eight, I loved Madonna's "Papadompe Beach." Didn't get why she was in trouble, though....— tncatboy
- I used to believe that at the beach town where we spent the summer, they took the sidewalks in for the winter.— Missy
- I believed everytime the toilet flushed a wave broke on a beach— Jenelle