I was about 6 years old, when I watched a film where two children are wandering around in the woods. At t one point the boy says to the girl 'each step that we take is one less step of our lives'- that phrase had a long lasting impact on me-- for a long time after that I took pains to ensure that my strides were as large as possible when walking.
A childhood belief about people

others believed things like this
- I used to believe I could fly.
All I had todo was step of a flight of stairs and I'd be walking in the air...— Dolly - If you step on the cracks in tiles when walking through a street, fairies will die.— Maddie
- I used to belive that if you didn't step off the escalator in time you would be sucked into the mechanism.— Houdinia
- i used to believe that if you watched TV for a long time, your eyes would turn into squares.Anon
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.— classroom 43
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that if I stepped on a bug, it would step on me in the other world.
Anon