When I was about 4 or 5 in midwest USA, I understood life events to be something like
6 yo - get to go to school
10 yo - I made it to ten years old - no tornadoes killed me
13 yo - can have girlfriend and children if I want to
18 yo - get drafted and go to Vietnam
19-20 yo - die in Vietnam
That was pretty much the "life schedule" I thought I was required to work from. TV news at the time was certainly responsible for the last two steps - the news black-out we have today with Iraq in the US is not better though! I value my uneasiness with war.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I was convinced that Gorilla soldiers in Vietnam in the 70's were real Gorillas attacking other Soldiers.— Mario
- I used to believe that a life sentece was for when you stay in jail for your whole entire life.— Sara
- I used to believe that my life was a video game with only 1 life and that God was playing it. — Rina
- My daddy used to think that there was a children-police that killed children who was bad— jonnie
- when I was 6, I believed I had to go to school for the rest of my life— Cody Jarosinski
- As an artist, i used to believe that my drawings were visions of my past life.(i had a good past life)— Blind dreamer