When the Soviet Union broke up, I was six years old and thought that an earthquake had cracked the earth at the new international borders and the people there had decided to form new countries because of these new natural boundaries.
A childhood belief about places
others believed things like this
- when i was 4 i thought an earthquake was an earth cake!— chardog
- I used to believe that when people broke bones, doctors would give them a new part of the body they broke. — Kelly
- I also thought that people in different countries coughed, sneezed, laughed, or cried in their own language!— Mini
- I thought that when you broke a bone, it broke completely off.— gin
- I used to think it was against international law, religious principles, etc. To be born on Christmas Day. :PAnon
- I used to believe that if you broke your arm, it broke off. And that if you got shot, you automatically died.— Mary Beth