Last week I had to drive to Chicago for work. It’s a longish drive and it left me with way
too much time to think. One of the
things that popped into my mind was some of the weird things I was convinced
were true / that I thought would be way bigger issues in my life back when I was just a wee tot. Let me tell you about them…
1. I thought that having a baby happened pretty instantly. Like on TV shows when the woman is all “the
baby is coming!” and they have to race to the hospital and there is always a very
real chance that they won’t make it and the dad will have to deliver the baby
in the car. I figured that was
typical. As such I spent far too much of
my childhood time being concerned about grown-up Kyley and what would happen
when she decided to have a baby.
2. I was convinced that bellybuttons could come untied. After I learned that bellybuttons are just
tied off after birth and heal into what we have today I became certain that if
I pushed my belly out too far my belly button would pop out, open, and all my
insides would fall out.
3. I thought that house fires would be a very prevalent thing in my
young life. In fact house fires were
probably the thing I was most afraid of as a child. They teach you all about them and how to be
safe if / when (let’s be real, it always seemed like a question of when) they happen
in school and poor small Kyley just assumed they would not burden us with that
information if it weren’t something that would for sure happen to children at
least 3 times.
4. Much like the item above, I
thought that catching on fire would be a big problem for me. Stop, drop, and roll was so ingrained in me,
and remains so to this day, that it seems almost absurd that I haven’t caught
on fire yet.
5. I was pretty sure Hogwarts was real and that I was going. This one still stings a bit.
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