When I was about 3 or 4 years old, I believed that, just as little kids were in the process of growing bigger and older, adults were in the process of growing younger and littler. So I thought that my parents would one day be little children again. Weirder still, I thought that I had previously been an adult and would talk about things that I'd done when I was. I'd say things like, "When I was big, I had a car like that." Or "When I was big, I used to smoke." If were someone who believed even remotely in the possibility of reincarnation--which I absolutely do not--I would almost wonder whether I was recalling snippets of past lives.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- Like most kids growing up, I believed there was an upside-down word on the other side of the mirror.— Taylor (14)
- When I was a child I used to believe that the things in my room became smaller but it was me who was growingAnon
- My 6 years younger sister used to tell me that I was younger than her. She was just growing backwards.— Taryn
- I used to belive you couldn't stop growing until you were bigger than godzillaAnon
- i used to believe that parents do things to make there children happier. well i was wrong. — Emma C.
- Ironically my parents were born on the same day; so growing up, I thought all parents had the same birthdays. Anon