getting older

I used to think that it was a sin to have a crush on someone. I constantly judged my classmates, even reprimanding my sister when she told me she liked a boy in her class, all the time knowing I'd never fall to desire...until the first day of fifth grade when I distinctly thought "forget that" and deliberately chose a boy in my class, just to have a crush.

SureIGuessYou'llDo

when i was a kid. i believed that all religions were of the same god, 1 god. i also believed that death was something to rejoice, for it means we get to go to heaven. i also believed that i knew everything about life/ whilst having no opinion of anyone or anything. i also believed that children younger than me, could see ghosts, and at times, so could i. there comes point when each child must join the h,race. and forever be devoid of the consciousness we once had. when i was a child i believed the world revolved around myself, when i was a child i could see. NB- i have a photographic memory :). enjoy the life!!

Zayd

I believed younger people preferred rock and roll, while preferring country music was just a natural part of growing old.

Brandon

I used to believe that men drank beer and women drank wine.

Anon

I used to believe that old people were wrinkly because they spent too much of their life swimming

Amy

I used to think that people never died and that they kept growing so that they were as tall as giants and their fingernails grew to longer than buses. I also thought the sun was a giant lightbulb. (I was 5.)

Charlotte

For a long time when I was little I didn't understand the difference between your left and right and the left and right of someone that was facing you. In dance class, our teacher was always saying stuff like "my left, your right", and somehow I took this to mean that all adults' left & right were reversed from kids'.

Sid

I used to believe that I could control the outcome of a situation if I thought the opposite was going to happen. For instance, if I needed to ask my dad for money, I would imagine him telling me no then he would say yes. I didn't realize how terribly wrong I was until I turned 15 and he told me to get a job.

Ubernaive

I thought that after turning 18 people are not allowed to get anymore christmas presents.

CrazyKid

When I was little I believes you changed your name when you got older or married as all the adults had lames like Irene, Valerie, Neville, Brian - no one little had names like that so I thought you got to pick another one when you got older.

Rhonda (a grownup name now!)

I used to believe that grownups were born grownups and children would always be children and that grandmas and grandpas were just people who cared for you that were old and I never realized that they were your parents parents and I never realized there was such thing as "growing"

Anon

My dad told me that when he was little, he looked up at his own dad and asked, "When I'm grown up like you, will my feet still reach the ground?"

Kim