I remember sobbing on New Year's Eve, 1968.
I just couldn't imagine it not being 1968 any more. It was the first time that it really sank in that once a time has come and gone, it's never coming back.
I've been grappling with that concept ever since.
A childhood belief about general

others believed things like this
- That only men farted. I literally started sobbing the first time I realized I farted.Anon
- I didn't quite grasp the concept of time zones, and thought that Chinese kids went to school at night.— Giselle
- When I was a year old, I believed if I hid my face, my mother couldn't see me because I couldn't see her.— kimberly dianne(:
- At a young age I couldn't imagine how people without glasses could marry the ones wearing them. — Ana
- I can remember thinking that is I hid my eyes, and couldn't see anybody that they couldn't see me.Anon
- I remember drinking red kool aid and peeing at the same time. I was expecting it to be red.Anon