My sister is two years older than me, and when I was a little kid, I believed it was possible for me to some day catch up in age with her and maybe even be older than her! At my birthday every year, I would anxiously check to see if we were closer in age than we had been before the birthday, but we never were...
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- i used to think that if i didn't celebrate my birthday each year my younger sister would catch up with me— q
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- My parents have the same birthday -- month, day, and year. I though all mom's and dad's had the same birthday.— Cait
- i used to think that i was older than my dad because my birthday was before his— zara
- My cousic used to think he was older than me because his birthday was in June and mine was in December.— //**...Ethan...**\\
- My sister uesd to think that you did a whole year's worth of growing in the night before your birthday.— Richard Davies