When I was about 4 years old, my best friend and I got into a fight. He punched me, I punched him. In the shocked silence that followed, he touched his chest and said "Look what you've done, my hart is beating! My sister says if your hart starts beating you're going to DIE!!" he exclaimed with the fear of god in his eye. I told him to stop talking nonsense, but I was scared shitless.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I thought “guerrilla tactics” meant fighting like a gorilla— beating your chest and that sort of thing.— Kai
- I still believe that if I really concentrate, I can stop my heart from beating.— Patrick
- I used to believe that you shouldn't swallow gum because it would stick to you heart and make it stop beating.Anon
- I used to believe that when it thundered, it meant the devil was beating his wife.— Carol
- When I was five or six, I was worried that I'd lost my heart because I didn't hear it beating.Anon
- My mum always told me to stop chewing my hair or else i would get a hairy chest! hee, hee! x— Kirsty