my own MYTHS from my CHILDHOOD

I'm sure everyone, when they were a child, believed something or other that they just grew up thinking, and then it turned out not to be true.  Its funny, looking back on them - what i believed was true, and just how wrong i was, or how silly the belief was, or how it just didnt make sense seeing as nature went against it.  These are the myths that i had.

     1. I belived that the world was perfect. I thought we were living in a utopia (of course i didnt think the word utopia, but the idea was the same), and was completely unaware that war existed while i breathed. I knew war had happend--because you learned about it in school--but i had thought that was the past. And when i found out about the wars in the middle east, and the poverty all around the world, it was a shock. It broke my concept of a perfect, happy world, and loged in it, dark and scary things. And it frightened me. I think part of the reason for this, was because I grew up (and am still, but this is talking about my childhood) in America. Of course, not to say there arent horrible things that go in America, but compared to other countries, we're a pretty safe country. For a few years before kindergarten, i lived in a small town. There was nothing bad that i saw, my world was dangerless. Ha. How dead wrong i was. I feel so lucky to grow up in a country much better off than others.

    
      2. I thought, that if you slept with pillows, you were rich. I have no idea why.

     3. I belived that the amount of oxygen on this earth was limited. I started beliveing this when i learned we breathed out CO2, so, in my defense, it would make sense to a 6 year old that if we used it all up, we would die. Haha, i even remember at one point, taking as small breaths as i could so i wouldnt use up so much oxygen. It scared me for a while, untill i learned what plants and trees did.

And so you have it; what i conjured up and truely belived.

What were some of your childhood myths ?





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