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What did you believe as a child?

Posted on Nov 4th, 2008 by ingebrita : seeker ingebrita
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for September 03, 2008:

I missed this question because I wasn't a member yet when it was asked.  It startled me when I stumbled across it today because I, too, believed that the moon was following our car.  My sister and I used to ride at night sleeping in the way back of the station wagon (back before seatbelts!) to our grandparents' house on Cape Cod about once a month.  Sure enough, the moon found our car and followed us almost every time.  The thing is, though, when I asked why it was following us, nobody understood what I was talking about!  I dropped the subject and eventually learned in school what was actually happening.  I felt sort of foolish until way into adulthood I heard the lyrics of Dave Matthews' song, You Never Know.

Funny when you're small
The moon follows the car
There's no one but you see
Hey, the moon is chasing me!

It made me so happy to know that someone else had experienced the same perception!  And after finding this Questions & Reflections question and reading the other responses, I now know that there were, in fact, many more!  Thanks everyone!
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Zephyr : Poeticspirit
2 days later
Zephyr said

Children have a wonderful way of looking at things, and surprisingly if we are lucky it returns as we get older,  the wonder. .

ingebrita : seeker
2 days later
ingebrita said

Thank you for your very kind thought!  It's been nice melting back into wonder the older I get…

Jackie : Protector of the Innocent
11 days later
Jackie said

Hehe!  You are not the only one who thought the moon followed the car!  I actually think many of us did.  Its amazing, the minds of kids.  I live in Syracuse, NY and downtown there are the Mony Towers which are identical…so whenever we went down there I thought we were in NYC and those were the actual twin towers…

ingebrita : seeker
11 days later
ingebrita said


Enjoyed your story!  Thinking about it, kids are pretty good detectives, coming up with amazingly plausible explanations for the things they encounter.  When we were driving at night with my parents, my father kept switching his headlights from high beams to low beams.  But I knew nothing about why high and low beams were alternately used so I thought he just couldn't make up his mind whether he wanted to use high or low beams!  I had him pegged (as it turned out unfairly) as an annoyingly indecisive person!

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