My dad put a thumbtack on one of the stairs to the basement and told us kids that it marked the center of the world - we believed him and all 7 of us thought we lived at the center of the world. My sister told about the thumbtack during show and tell one day and suddenly her world was shattered:(
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world. — Pauline
- Until a few years ago, I believed this was a "doggy dog" world, rather than a "dog-eat-dog" world.— jemima
- I thought the world was black and white because of all the smoke from the bombs in Second World War.— Bjoern
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie
- When I was a kid I thought that when my parents were kids, the world was black and white and had no color...— KKM
- I used to think that the phrase "It's a dog eat dog world'' was its a dogey dog world.— Gabral