when i was a child, and people asked me where my grandparents lived, i used to just smile vaguely and point my finger to the sky, since the only thing i really knew was that i had to take a plane to get there (they lived up north). in norwegian, the expression for "the sky" and "heaven" is the same (himmelen), so every time i did the finger pointing, people used to say "poor thing" and pat me on the head with a sad look upon their faces.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that a half moon was gods finger nail, and his finger was pointing downwards.— clo
- Never point at a grave, if you do your finger will rot off.— KL.R
- I used to thing that vikings lived 50 years ago.— Sigrid
- when i was 4 my mom told me we lived in Indiana and i would tell people we lived in DianaAnon
- I used to think an evil spirit type thing called Wango lived in my dog. I was terrified of that dog.— Franklin
- It never occured to me as a child that teachers lived in houses. I thought they lived at school...— Heidi, Pittsburgh, PA