When I was little, I believed that you grew to be old by choice. By old, I mean, you decided you wanted to be about 28.
At age 15, or so, when you looked perfect (what was I thinking?), you'd have to decide whether you wanted to look good or whether you wanted to drive, vote, have a cool job, etc.
I decided that most people made the decision to get to do all of those things, not knowing how bad it would really get. Like they didn't figure that wrinkles, moles, excessive (read: any) body hair and breath that smelled like beer, garlic and cigarettes would ever be part of the equation.
I spent a good bit of time when I was 7 or so feeling sorry for all the grownups that I knew that they had made that decision. I knew all the people on TV were smart, because they knew not to make that decision. On TV, women had babies and THEIR boobies didn't get all floppy and THEY didn't turn into monsters!
Go figure. I grew up to be a monster! ;-)
A childhood belief about appearance
others believed things like this
- When i was younger i thougth that when you grew up you could decide whether you wanted to be a girl or a boy. Anon
- I used to think wrinkles came about because people just grew too much skin.Anon
- I used to believe that I really COULD be anything I wanted to be when I grew up. I wanted to be a unicorn. Anon
- I wanted to be an elephant when I grew up. — Vix
- When I was 5, I wanted to be a bunny rabbit when I grew up.— Carrie
- i wanted to be either an astronaut or a goblin when i grew upAnon