I used to believe that work would end. All the adults - like my mom and dad - were working. All the time. And they must be working toward something. Some goal. And when they were done, we would all just relax.
A childhood belief about work

others believed things like this
- I used to think that when the power goes out, the water also stops working.Anon
- I used to believe that a hat trick in football was achieved when a player scored a goal with their head!— Andy
- That adults came into the world as adults and were never childrenAnon
- That boys turned into women when they became adults and girls turned into men when they became adults. Anon
- I used to think that I was smarter than adults. Now I know kids are smarter than adults in many ways— Marshall M
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy