I honestly believed when I was a kid that some day, at some age (I wasn't sure what age) when I got older everyone would come to me and say, "The way you have been experiencing everything is not the way it really is. Everything is actually better. You just had to experience the bad stuff so you could appreciate the way it 'really is'." Funny, I just grew up and realized everything is just the way it is. You just have to deal with.
Sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad. Deal with it!
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- I always thought 'virgin' was Marys star sign and could never work out why it was such a big dealAnon
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- I grew up Jewish. Until I was about 10, I believed that everyone who wasn't Jewish was Catholic.— Philm35
- When I was young, I honestly believed that I would die before I reached high school. Anon
- I used to believe that aliens would come and take me if I wasn't good to my parents— somebody
- When i was little my older brother said rocks grew in your poop, so i went digging and never found anyAnon