Hi friends of WEEKENDEXPERIENCES! πβ€οΈ
I hope you're having a great weekend! Here's my contribution to this week's engagement topics; my chosen topic is:
What's the weirdest thing you believed was true when you were a kid?
Reading this guideline on engagement topics made me laugh, as it reminded me of something I believed in childhood that was quite strange. As a child, my sisters and I always watched movies, especially horror films. In these movies, many people always die. I was very young, around six or seven years old, and according to what my sisters made me believe, these people actually died.
In my childish mind, these people were simply people who wanted to die and agreed to act in these movies. My sisters, with their mischievousness, told me that this was the theory and that they died in real life too. My wicked sisters made me believe this, and in my innocent mind, I couldn't think about what the truth really was. My father worked and was rarely home, so he didn't offer me much guidance. My mother, I suppose, was always in the kitchen, and I didn't feel comfortable asking her these kinds of questions either.
My sisters' lies came to an end one day when my father had a day off from work and sat down to watch television. I asked him if I could watch the movie that was playing with him, and he said yes. The movie was about cowboys shooting each other, and I remember that one of them was subjected to terrible torture. They put him in the desert, buried him in the sand with only his head sticking out, and he slowly died, burned by the sun. I became very sad, to the point of crying, and my father comforted me. That's when he told me that these people weren't really dying, that it was all acting, that the bullets and everything they used were fake. I felt so stupid for believing what my sisters told me, and thanks to my father, I learned the truth. Today, I remember that belief, and it makes me laugh.
Now that I have my own children, I try to explain many things to them so they don't misunderstand, especially when it comes to television. Between siblings, there are often a lot of pranks, and I try to keep an eye on that too, since I was the youngest of three sisters. They played tricks on me to make me believe things that weren't true, and I don't want my children to go through that. Sometimes it creates traumas that last into adulthood.
The photos shared here are my own, taken with my iPhone 11. The editing was done in Canva. For the English translation, I used Google Translate.