My brother is just barely two years older than me. When I was around four, I got very fed up with him boasting about his age, so told him that I would catch up to him one day. So I prayed for tornado's to come on his birthday. Somehow I thought that would prevent him from turning another year older... as if it were the celebration part that makes a person turn another age. If that were the case... I think people would have stopped celebrating their birthday's long ago.
And ironically... the tornado's always came on mine.
A childhood belief about getting older
others believed things like this
- My cousic used to think he was older than me because his birthday was in June and mine was in December.— //**...Ethan...**\\
- i thought I got one year older when my family sang the birthday song.— I am the ghost
- i used to think that if i didn't celebrate my birthday each year my younger sister would catch up with me— q
- My parents have the same birthday -- month, day, and year. I though all mom's and dad's had the same birthday.— Cait
- i used to think that i was older than my dad because my birthday was before his— zara
- I used to believe that when there was a tornado watch, you were supposed to sit down and watch the tornado.— Kay