Whenever I had a birthday party as a child and someone would say, "make a wish" as I was blowing out the candles, I always believed that that meant I had to hold my hand up to my face while blowing them out. I don't know why, but I didn't know what a wish was.
A childhood belief about birthdays
others believed things like this
- i used to belive that if you talked into a bubble while blowing into it it would say what you said before— austin franck
- i used to believe that if i looked at trees, the wind would start blowing. Anon
- I used to watch the clouds blowing across the sky and think I was seeing evidence of the earth's rotation.— Dave T
- I used to believe I could control the weather by singing rain rain go away or blowing the clouds away.— Shannon
- I always believed as a child your stomach was a big hand which squeezed your food out through your bum....— amc
- I used to believe that on your birthday, you didn't advance to your next age until you ate your birthday cake.— Casi