Blog Post #20 01/25/16
When I was younger, there were a number of things that confused me. This caused me to come up with my own explanation for them, and so there was a lot that I believed that wasn't quite true. But oh how I wish those things were.
1. Factories that had smoke coming out of them were actually cloud factories.
When I was really little I didn't know where clouds came from. I had no clue how they got up in the sky, how there were so many, and how they never went away. Driving around I'd see these factories that had things that looked like clouds coming out of them. I just assumed that those factories were where clouds came from. It was an adorable belief of mine.
2. Brown cows made chocolate milk.
This is a pretty common one, because honestly as a kid who couldn't possibly fathom the power of chocolate syrup, brown cows seemed as though they would be the only source of chocolate milk. I drank chocolate milk everyday at school and there was white milk that other kids got in the exact same kind of container, so one can only assume that the colourless cows made the white milk and the brown ones made chocolate milk. I never actually gave up on that belief until my 2nd grade friends convinced me that it was syrup used to make the milk chocolate.
3. The moon was following me.
Again, a lot of people thought so. The thing is, I knew quite a bit about space and a little about physics as a kid, so I didn't just think the moon was following me, I thought it was attracted to me through gravitational force. I thought that I literally had enough gravitational pull to make the moon follow me. Unfortunately I stopped believing that, but oh how I wish I still did.
4. The moon has a face.
I had quite a bit of knowledge of the moon cycle and whatnot, and I realized that on every full moon, you can see a face on the moon. But I didn't just think it was a random design of a face, I thought it was an actual face. As in the moon actually had eyes, a nose, and a mouth. I know now that its craters make the design of a face, but I actually thought the moon could see everything and that his "smile" was what lit up the night. Wouldn't that be cool though?
5. If a door is open, there's someone there.
I have this strange, I guess, fear, of open doors. When I was a kid I thought that if there was an open door, whether it be fully open or just a crack, I thought that there was someone or something behind it. I thought that there was a monster in the closet, that there was a burglar behind my bedroom door, that someone was watching me from the open window. To be utterly honest, I'm still afraid of it. I know it's not true, but I can't shake the fear.
6. The tooth fairy collected teeth to make a giant piano.
When I learned that the tooth fairy collected teeth, I spent days trying to figure out why. Why would a fairy need teeth? My conclusion was quite different from other kids, because most of the kids in my class said that she just really liked teeth. (wow. so original.) I on the other hand, though that she was making a giant piano, and that she needed the teeth for the keys. Kind of creepy, I know, but I knew that she was tiny and teeth seemed like the perfect size for her piano keys.
The point I'm trying to make is that I stopped believing things like this. I feel like I gave up on my imagination. I want this creative energy back. When I was a child, instead of looking for an answer to my questions, I created my answers. I can't help but feel like that ability is important and should never be lost.
Yours truly,
Kat N.
1. Factories that had smoke coming out of them were actually cloud factories.
When I was really little I didn't know where clouds came from. I had no clue how they got up in the sky, how there were so many, and how they never went away. Driving around I'd see these factories that had things that looked like clouds coming out of them. I just assumed that those factories were where clouds came from. It was an adorable belief of mine.
2. Brown cows made chocolate milk.
This is a pretty common one, because honestly as a kid who couldn't possibly fathom the power of chocolate syrup, brown cows seemed as though they would be the only source of chocolate milk. I drank chocolate milk everyday at school and there was white milk that other kids got in the exact same kind of container, so one can only assume that the colourless cows made the white milk and the brown ones made chocolate milk. I never actually gave up on that belief until my 2nd grade friends convinced me that it was syrup used to make the milk chocolate.
3. The moon was following me.
Again, a lot of people thought so. The thing is, I knew quite a bit about space and a little about physics as a kid, so I didn't just think the moon was following me, I thought it was attracted to me through gravitational force. I thought that I literally had enough gravitational pull to make the moon follow me. Unfortunately I stopped believing that, but oh how I wish I still did.
4. The moon has a face.
I had quite a bit of knowledge of the moon cycle and whatnot, and I realized that on every full moon, you can see a face on the moon. But I didn't just think it was a random design of a face, I thought it was an actual face. As in the moon actually had eyes, a nose, and a mouth. I know now that its craters make the design of a face, but I actually thought the moon could see everything and that his "smile" was what lit up the night. Wouldn't that be cool though?
5. If a door is open, there's someone there.
I have this strange, I guess, fear, of open doors. When I was a kid I thought that if there was an open door, whether it be fully open or just a crack, I thought that there was someone or something behind it. I thought that there was a monster in the closet, that there was a burglar behind my bedroom door, that someone was watching me from the open window. To be utterly honest, I'm still afraid of it. I know it's not true, but I can't shake the fear.
6. The tooth fairy collected teeth to make a giant piano.
When I learned that the tooth fairy collected teeth, I spent days trying to figure out why. Why would a fairy need teeth? My conclusion was quite different from other kids, because most of the kids in my class said that she just really liked teeth. (wow. so original.) I on the other hand, though that she was making a giant piano, and that she needed the teeth for the keys. Kind of creepy, I know, but I knew that she was tiny and teeth seemed like the perfect size for her piano keys.
The point I'm trying to make is that I stopped believing things like this. I feel like I gave up on my imagination. I want this creative energy back. When I was a child, instead of looking for an answer to my questions, I created my answers. I can't help but feel like that ability is important and should never be lost.
Yours truly,
Kat N.