I've always misunderstood the phrase "you can never have too many friends."
I took it to mean that "having too many friends is bad, therefore it should never happen."
I was wondering why it would be a bad thing to have too many friends, and suddenly it hit me that I was misinterpreting it!
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- my friends sister used to think god was a bee— cameron
- One of my friends used to believe that appendixitis was a Hawiian dance. — Jessica Tinch (belief by Tara Luethke)
- when I was a kid, I used to believe that only girls could be my friends and all other boys were my brothers.
— rajat - I used to believe social security ensured you would always have friends— Stephanie Pardi
- I used to think you couldn't die if you didn't have shoes on. Coincidentally, so did one of my friends.— Casey
- I used to believe that the Beatles were friends of my father, and I always expected to meet them.— Rafa Garnica