i used to believe that people live forever until my brother told me the truth. i got nightmares for a week.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- In the mid 90's, I used to believe that babies who were born in the year 2000 would live forever.Anon
- I thought that when I got older "they" would invent a cure for death and I could live forever.— wishful thinking
- I thought the guy who got shot at the beginning of Gunsmoke was replaced every week by a live guy.— Monica
- My older brother told me that speed bumps were really dead people covered in cement.— Trina
- My mom always told me if I made an ugly face it would stay that way forever.Anon
- My sister told me that Fraggles lived in our basement. I used to sit down there forever so I could see them. — Suzie