My Childhood Ideals

When I was a kid, everything made perfect sense. It was growing up that didn’t make sense. Things just got more complicated as my birthdays increased until I felt as if everything I believed in as a kid was wrong.

1.) I used to judge the quality of a car by how many exhaust pipes it had. (5 y/o)

2.) I thought Catsup was ketchup for cats. (6 y/o)

3.) Until middle school, I thought babies were made by kissing. Sukisuki… (7 y/o)

4.) I thought Jurassic Park was a documentary for the first 30 mins. (8 y/o)

5.) I thought Spanish was just a different way of pronouncing English words (9 y/o)

6.) Whenever I got hiccups I used to imagine a little monster in my lungs, and I had to suffocate it by holding my breath (10 y/o)

7.) I actually believed that math would be useful when I grow up. (11 y/o)

8.) I thought Puerto Rico was right off the coast of NJ because there were a lot of them in a town nearby. (12 y/o)

9.) Through most my childhood I thought there was only one Shamu the whale and he was the same one in all the movies and at seaworld. (until 18y/o)

Yeah, growing up was rough.