I thought that we all lived forever and there was no death.
It wasn't until Tommy Cooper died (I was age 5) that I realised the terrible truth. I was in shock for a day.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- I thought that Tommy Lee (the singer) and Tommy Lee Jones(the actor) were the same exact person.— Glowworm
- I thought that when I got older "they" would invent a cure for death and I could live forever.— wishful thinking
- When I will little I use to believe my mum would be around forever - she died when I was 13.— wn
- I used to think that if you were scared "half to death" that you only had one scare left before you died.— Bush Hiddenofsky
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie
- I used to believe that "Earwigs lived in your ears", scared
me to death for years.— Will Chapman