In 1986, when I was 5 there were summit talks ("Gipfeltreffen" in German) between Reagan and Gorbatchev in Reykjavík, Iceland. I understood that it was an island far off and just pictured the two heads of government climbing up that high mountain (like I knew in the Alps) with a palm tree on it to have a very serious conversation on top of it. I thought it was useful because everyone could run down the other way if they didn't like each other. It took me a while to understand that such talks didn't need to be on islands nor mountains.
A childhood belief about politics
others believed things like this
- i didn't beleive this, but a kid my sister knew thought if he screamed in a really high voice, he ran faster.Anon
- I used to wonder why the government didn't just make war illegal..— Samilton Duerheiser
- I used to think an avalanche was a type of bird native to the high mountains— Nina
- I thought the Virgin Islands were owned by Richard Branson until I was 24. — LJ
- I thought that islands and continents were floating rocks so you could swim underneath them.— Kat
- I used to believe that heads of state had diferent kinds of heads on their shoulders— stupid elado