When I was young I used to repeatedly ask my Mum what was over a hill we passed on the way to the shops (since it was in a city, it was not immediately obvious). Her reply, since she was anxious to get on, was always "nothing". For at least six months I thought this was literally true, and that the hill really did mark the end of the world. I don't think I really pictured this in an 'yawning abyss' way, but was just terrified that I would also become nothing if I crossed the hill. I only really stopped believing this when we travelled over the hill to go to a friend's birthdfay party, a journey which caused me no little fear.
A childhood belief about landscape
others believed things like this
- i used to belive that when you were driving over a hill it was the end of the world— brianne
- When i was about 5 I used to believe that Broken Hill was a broken hill. — Saad
- I use to think that there were HILL COWS!— Erin
- After Grange Hill's "Just say no campaign" that people would force me to take drugs ... if only.— Netty
- I used to think all television shows were made at the tv station on the hill of my home town. — Monique
- I used to think small furniture shops were basically cottage converted charity shops.Anon