Growing up I believed that as time would go by you would automatically get wiser! I belived this for years and years. Now that I am fairly grown myself, I have learnt that in order to get wiser you have to apply yourself.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- My sister belived in Unicorns until she had 17 years !— ME
- im grade 2, my teacher said that she was 2000 years old and i belived her— ---pepsi---
- i was always told if i picked my nose my brain would fall out! i belived it for years!Anon
- When a grown-up is shown as a child, it was actually them, and the film took 20+ years to produceAnon
- For years and years I believed that tuna must be really little fish because they came in such small cans!!— Gisela
- I once believed that one could run around the south pole in order to travel backwards and forwards in time.— kaibutsu