28 Things I Believed While Growing Up

If I can come up with 28 points on everything I believed in while growing up you can understand the level of intellect and smartness I’ve had in me. There are no time frames or any order in which I’ve written down the points however once I started thinking of few of the points, the rest of them came pretty naturally to me.Warning: it will shock you to core how someone can be that stupid but my excuse is I was a child. I know this is going to be a long post so without further ado I shall begin,

1) Cow milk tastes bad.

I was the kid who believed that a cow’s milk would taste like a cow and in order to hide its real taste people add nutritional drink powders like Bournivita and Complan in it.

2) Swallowing fruit seeds will grow them into a plant inside your stomach.

This I’m sure a lot of you have thought of while growing up. I used to be highly stressed out while having a watermelon hoping I don’t swallow a seed by accident.

3) Eating chicken would make the chicken cry in your stomach when you sleep.

For a long time I remember eating chicken while saying sorry to it, never heard it cry though.

4) Pulling cheeks can make them sag.

When I was a chubby kid everyone used to pull my cheeks because that was the only way they could feel less awkward around an emotionless child like me. So after they do that I’ll take both my hands and massage my cheeks back inside to avoid sagging. People found it hilarious while I didn’t get the joke.

5) Did not believe in Milk Teeth.

In fact I believed that a person can grow as many teeth as he wants till he becomes old. Milk teeth were a myth to me.

6) Believed I was adopted.

If you are this blog reader from the beginning you would know this. But yes I thought my parents adopted me and maybe the idea came into my head because my brother told me so. Which leads to point number 7.

7) My brother was my mortal enemy.

I used to plot vicious plans to destroy him in my head but nobody had any clue about it. I was invisible and powerless.

8) Assumed fairness to beauty.

Till high school I used to believe that only fair people can be called beautiful. It is sad that I grew up thinking like that, all thanks to the ads on the television and people around me giving fairness as an attribute to beauty.

9) Didn’t know how to tell time.

Until about 8th grade I made my dad buy me those digital watches because I didn’t have any clue how to tell time.

10) Mineral water had minerals in it.

I thought those bottled waters were mixed with minerals that would dissolve in the water.

11) Used to pour water on my head to avoid school.

This was one of the stupidest thing I’ve done but in my defense I was desperate.

12) Jesus was an American.

Somehow I imagined Jesus to be an American for a long time. Not proud of it.

13) Smelled everything before eating.

And my dad lovingly used to call this characteristic of mine as a ‘pig behaviour’. If it’s any consolation dad, I don’t do it that often now. 😀

14) ATMs were having people inside it.

I thought the money came from people who came to know how much money we wanted from the machine and gave it to us through the cash hole.

15) How people got pregnant.

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16) Moon was made of ice.

I thought moon was made of ice and that’s the reason it doesn’t come out when the sun is out since the moon would melt. Screw science yo!

17) Chicken-pox would turn me into a chicken.

Let’s just take a moment of silence for me.

18) Headache for one whole day will kill you.

I thought that’s why grown-ups had medicine for headaches and also they would say things like “The headache was going to kill me or almost killed me.” I took it quite literally.

19) Adults were never kids.

Assumed that adults were born as adults so that they could take care of the children all around the world.

20) White shade on nails meant you were born lucky.

As stupid as it sounds I thought that the white shade on the starting point of the nails were a mark of a special luck you inherit by birth and I didn’t have one. Looks like those people were all having calcium deficiency.

21) Earth was crying when it rained.

I know people, I was stupid. Wait till you see the next point.

22) Lightning was made so that people could see the road.

I think it’s just getting sad right now.

23) Girls sitting down to pee.

I thought the reason they did that unlike men was because they were always tired. I was sexist as a child.

24) Reading a book before sleeping.

If you read a book before sleeping it would suck you into that world the whole night.

25) People behind mirrors.

I thought these people existed and I used to talk to them for hours looking into the mirror.

26) I thought my parents were spies.

I thought they worked in some sort of secret service and pretended to be working in a “‘bank”. Or were they?

27) Dead people moved the clouds.

This is simple logic. Everyone said people who died were above us and watching us. And clouds used to change shape and move around quickly. Do the math.

28) Lastly: Adulthood is easy.

I really thought adults were having a gala time and enjoyed their life to the fullest without studying, working hard and doing nothing. I guess I didn’t think it through.