When I was about 10 and my little sister was four, we went on a family camping trip to France one summer. One day, I found Katie, my sister, starring at a tree a little way away from our tent. She told me that was were Boris, the cheetah, lived. Boris was a french cheetah, who was pink (with pink spots), and, coincidentaly, loved all the food which Katie hated (nameably, everything healthy.). Boris came home with us, and for about the next year and a half, whenever my Mum said 'Katie, eat your vegetables.', she always answered, 'But then Boris will starve!'
To this day, we don't know if Boris was an honest figment of my little sister's imagination, or a clever ploy to guilt my parents into giving her more biscuits.
A childhood belief about imaginary friends
others believed things like this
- I thought pink wafer biscuits would bite me if I touched them. Absolutely no idea why.Anon
- i knew that if you ate beets your urine would turn pink and i thought if it was pink, then you could drink it.— JP
- I used to belief sloths lived in trees outside my childhood home. My older sister told me so.Anon
- I thought pink lemonade came from pink lemons.Anon
- My younger sister used to believe that in everybody's belly button there lived a family of squirrels.— Sophie
- I used to believe that french kiss was something coming from France, and that only the French did it— Sasha