When I was little I saw an episode of The Golden Girls. In it the girls were throwing their friend a surprise birthday party, and he ended up having a heart attack and died. After watching that I believed that you could only die on your brithday. So every year the night before my birthday I would get really excited about the presents and party I would get. But then I'd get really sad because I thought I might die. I'd pray to God and ask him to spare me for another year. Needless to say I haven't watched an episode of The Golden Girls since then.
A childhood belief about birthdays
others believed things like this
- I thought the song "Party Time" by Moby was actually saying "heart attack" (this was before I knew the title)— Elviessa
- My parents have the same birthday -- month, day, and year. I though all mom's and dad's had the same birthday.— Cait
- My sister uesd to think that you did a whole year's worth of growing in the night before your birthday.— Richard Davies
- I thought that the difference between girls and boys was that girls have teeth.
Anon - i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- My birthday was on a different day every year, assigned by my parentsAnon