When I was very young I was told that dying could happen to anyone at anytime. I was from then on terrified that I would suddenly and without reason die violently (think spontaneous combustion). It wasn't till I was older that I realized what was meant by that statement.
A childhood belief about people
others believed things like this
- When I was young I used to believe for some reason that being asthmatic meant you were born with no lungs.Anon
- when i was about three i suddenly realized where bacon comes from....from unborn pigs eggs of course— planetnewbs
- I used to believe that serial killers violently ate their cereal...yeah..Anon
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- My sister just recently realized that the lyric "more than a woman" wasn't 4 letter woman!— Anne
- When I was young, I really used to believe that 'R.I.P.' (on a gravestone) meant 'Return If Possible.'— Colin