When I was 5 I was up in a tree with all the other kids in some back yard or other. Most likely a spider bit me or I cut myself on a sharp branch. There wasn't a lot of blood, but added to the pain, it was enough to scare me silly. All I saw was a red leaf as I scrambled down and away from the tree. For many years I was loath to go near any thing with a red leaf. Not long ago I had to weed eat near a bush that had some red leaves and felt a ting of that old fear. And I'm 43 years old.
A childhood belief about plants
others believed things like this
- When I was five, I believed God was big as a tree, a tree being the biggest thing I could convieve of.
— Chris - I used to falsely believe that planting a fruit pip in the garden would actually grow a tree or bush.— Natasha
- I used to believe that the Doller Tree store was an actual tree.Anon
- I thought if you took some candy and buried in the yard, you would grow a candy tree.Anon
- I used to think that partridge in a pear tree was "cartridge" in a pear tree(christmas song)— Erica
- I used to think that the tree branches moving was making the wind, not the wind making the tree branches move.— Jenny