I thought my grandad would get older, so I asked him 'What do you want to be when you're older?'.
A childhood belief about getting older

others believed things like this
- a friend of my little sister's had 4 older brothers, so she thought that when you got older you grew a penis!Anon
- I thought that Dad's were always older then Mom's, come to find out my mom is a few months older than my dad.— Nicole
- when i was really young, i couldn't figure out why i can't get older than my older sister.— angela
- when i was little i thought my cat would turn into a lion when he got older.Anon
- When I was little I thought grown ups could fly but wouldn't tell me about it or teach me until I got older.— James the Great
- I thought that when I got older "they" would invent a cure for death and I could live forever.— wishful thinking