Daily prompt: What’s something you used to believe as a kid that seems ridiculous now?
✍️Not one, I’d share quite a few.
✦ One of my earliest beliefs was that someone might steal my mother. So I would cling to her constantly, her finger, her hand, or her pallu—just to make sure she stayed close.
✦ Then there were the “flying snakes.” The real ones that could swoop over me and finish me anywhere, anytime. For a stretch of my childhood, roughly between ages five and seven, I was genuinely terrified and I did not share it with anyone. Much later in some encyclopaedia I read –
‘Flying snakes are real. However, they don’t exactly fly; instead, they are expert gliders. They belong to the genus Chrysopelea and are found in the tropical rainforests of Southeast Asia, parts of China and India.’ Yes, you read it right, India also!
✦ Another belief took hold a little later, around ages seven to nine. I remember being told (or perhaps misunderstanding something I heard) that I swallowed frog eggs with water, they would lodge in my brain and turn into toads. 🐸
✦Then came my early teens, when I believed I was some kind of genius. 💡 I assumed good marks were inevitable for me, and that studying was something others—those with “lesser brains”—needed to do. That belief was completely shattered after my 10th board results, when I fell flat on my face academically, I mean scraped somehow. It was a humbling moment, but also a turning point. After that “fiasco,” I began to study seriously—and actually did well in all the years that followed. 💯✍️🧠📚
✦ I think after that, my beliefs became a little more grounded… and significantly less entertaining. ツ
Roots n Wings 
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