When I was young I didn't know (of course) why people die. So I thought that it was limited by the number of words you were allowed to speak in your life. If you pass that number then you die. I never knew how many words that were, but surely I would by now have died already 1000 times.
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- when i was little i believed that your social security number was the number you were born on the earth — christine
- I thought everyone only had a set number of breaths before they died.
I breathed slowly for a long time.Anon - I used to believe that when i died it was like a super mario game... I had a certain number of lives.— David...waffles
- I used to believe that all four-letter words are bad words.Anon
- When I was little I thought you could get arrested if you accidentally skipped a number while counting.— Hailey
- I used to believe that all languages were just jiberish and I asked my mom why they didn't use real words.Anon