When I was a child, I was scared of dying--so much so, that I would check my heart every few minutes to make sure it was still beating. I didn't realize that if it wasn't, I'd have already been dead.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that you shouldn't swallow gum because it would stick to you heart and make it stop beating.Anon
- When I was five or six, I was worried that I'd lost my heart because I didn't hear it beating.Anon
- I still believe that if I really concentrate, I can stop my heart from beating.— Patrick
- When i was child, i used to believe i can fly, but i had to find the "formula" for realize it— Magic. W.
- As a small child I always confused someone being unconcious with someone being dead.— Rick
- When I was a child I used to believe stars were the dead people who we loved— Anaïs