After learning about 'falling stars' in school, I'd sit for hours watching some random star, waiting for it to just fall. Guess I should have payed more attention in class...
A childhood belief about outer space

others believed things like this
- I learned in the first grade that the Sun was a star just like all the other stars, only it was MUCH bigger.— Geoff
- i used to believe that stars really were star shaped, i realised at the age of 34 how wrong i was.Anon
- I used to believe that it was the Star Wars "Tri-ology" instead of the Stars Wars "trilogy".— keith Key
- On TV game sows when they said the winners were chosen "at random" I thought random was a town.Anon
- when i was was little i thought that pop stars were stars in space would pop— roman honytoast
- I used to think stars were really shaped like you draw stars!Anon