When I was a child, I believed that everything would always work of for the best. Now, only at the age of 17, I know that this is not true. We learn only from our mistakes, and mistakes do not usually work out for the best.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- I thought that smart people never made mistakes!— eeeeeeeeeeeeegggggg
- My uncle once said that elves were really badchildren made to work in santa's work shop— Some guy
- i used to believe that if i didn't work at school, i would have donkey ears, so now i work hard !!!— denis
- I believed that when you got married (the wife) you didn't have to work. Boy, was I fooled. ha ha ha— Patty
- When I was little I believed little men and little women worked inside my body to make everything work.— Ashley
- I used to believe there was a number "eleventeen". I could never quite work out where it went, though.— Matthew