I used to believe that your life expectancy was inversly proportional to how much you talked. The more you talked, the sooner you died. And you couldn't go through life not talking to anybody, which is why people didn't live forever.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that the more you talked, the sooner you would die. Needless to say, I was a quiet kid.— Lisa
- I thought there was some video games so hard that if you died on them you also died in real life!— Kakuri
- When I was little I believed when an actor died in a movie, he died in real life.— Ben
- I am from Norway, and when i was a kid I used to believe thet gay people talked swedish!— Norway-Girl
- I used to believe that when people talked about 4x4 trucks, I thought it meant all the wheels turned.
— tracy - When people talked about serial killers, I thought that they put poison in your cerealAnon