Has anyone else had those misunderstandings as a child of certain concepts in life?\u00a0 From babies to refrigerators,\u00a0 kids sometimes misinterpret ideas.\u00a0 To me, these misunderstandings make the best of stories and show a peek at your perspective as a kid.<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0<\/strong> \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Skyscrapers and Airplanes.<\/p>\n When I was young, let’s say 5 or 6,\u00a0 I had the greatest realization.\u00a0 People were dumb.\u00a0 I mean, my evidence for this wasn’t exactly valid.\u00a0 In fact,\u00a0 I was very well a dumb human myself.\u00a0 However,\u00a0 my assumption still stands.<\/p>\n Now.\u00a0 What lead to this assumption was the fact that after, I’m estimating, a year of pointing out exhaust from the airplanes to my mom and shouting, “Mom, look!\u00a0 The airplane is scraping the sky!”<\/p>\n At this point, I thought, everything had feelings and personalities just as I did.\u00a0 Rocks, Trees, Animals.\u00a0 The wind, for God’s sake.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>So, as you could imagine,\u00a0 the sky had these traits as well, and whenever an airplane would cross over the horizon or trail above my head, the thought of airplanes purposelessly scratching at the harmless and beautiful sky\u00a0 made me blow up the airplanes in my mind.<\/p>\n Then at times, I enjoyed the scraping of the sky and wished the airplanes would curl intricate designs onto the sky.\u00a0 But the never did and this made me sad.<\/p>\n \u00a0One day,\u00a0 I looked to the sky and and quietly said, “Look, the airplane scraping the sky!”\u00a0 Mom didn’t hear me.<\/p>\n “What, dear?”<\/p>\n By this point,\u00a0 I was already too deep in thought to respond immediately.\u00a0 I was perplexed.\u00a0 Mom repeated herself.<\/p>\n “What?”<\/p>\n I didn’t know what to say yet.\u00a0 So, I started spilling my thoughts as I thought them.\u00a0 Thinking each sentence through.\u00a0 Looking back, obviously I didn’t think them through well enough.<\/p>\n “Mom who made up the words airplane and skyscraper?”<\/p>\n “I don’t know.\u00a0 Why?”<\/p>\n “Well,”\u00a0 I said this quite seriously, “They’re dumb.”<\/p>\n I didn’t give her time to process, I guess, because she didn’t respond.<\/p>\n “I mean,\u00a0 skyscrapers don’t even scrape the sky like airplanes do,”\u00a0 I stated, emphasizing the word scrape.\u00a0 “They just sit there.\u00a0 They don’t scrape anything unless you rub a man against the top of one,” I paused.\u00a0 “Ya know,\u00a0 and they could’ve come up with a less dumb name for airplane.\u00a0 I mean,\u00a0 we get that they are in the air.\u00a0 I mean, they should just be called plain planes.”\u00a0 I ranted, making sure to differentiate the word plain and planes by emphasizing the later.<\/p>\n After a moment of thought and a slight giggle,\u00a0 my mom started to reply.<\/p>\n “Honey–“<\/p>\n Just then, my sister butted in.<\/p>\n “No, dummy.\u00a0 They’re called skyscrapers for a reason,” she stated plainly, making sure to drag out the word reason.\u00a0 “It’s because they are so tall that they scrape the sky.\u00a0 Airplanes just fly through the sky, leaving exhaust behind them.”<\/p>\n It all made sense.\u00a0 I mean,\u00a0 stupid sense.\u00a0 Not the logical sense that my point made, it seemed.\u00a0 \u00a0Although, she didn’t give a reason why ‘air’ was tacked to the front end of airplane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Has anyone else had those misunderstandings as a child of certain concepts in life?\u00a0 From babies to refrigerators,\u00a0 kids sometimes misinterpret ideas.\u00a0 To me, these misunderstandings make the best of stories and show a peek at your perspective as a kid. 1.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Skyscrapers and Airplanes. 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