Not everything told to us when we are young are true

 
    When I was young, I used to think that adults are always right. When they tell me something, I immediately believed it because I always think that they know everything else in this world that is totally mysterious to me. When my mother told me about Santa Claus and socks and gifts, I unquestioningly believed it. Once, she told us (with my younger brother) not to show our teeth to the lizards innocently crawling at our ceiling because it will never grow back when it will fall off. So I spent my childhood looking at our ceiling every time I laugh inside the house. There is also this silly belief (also told to us by a grown up cousin) to spit saliva every time we see a gecko or else our tongue will be cut off (by whom and how, I don’t know). There are a lots of don’ts and do’s during my childhood days, all invented by those silly adults trying to scare us off. 

     As I grew up, I started to realize how totally ridiculous they are. So when I saw a rainbow and pointed at it, trying to show it to my younger brother and my Tita chastised me never to do it again or else my finger (that I used in pointing) will be cut off, I asked her why, how and by whom. She just told me not to question it because it is what it is (if you don’t understand that, so am I). Until now, I really wondered where those stupid beliefs came from, who invented it, and why they told us that. For a wide-eyed, curious child like me, questions never end. Sometimes when i would ask something that I don't understand, they would usually put me off. I don't know if they are just annoyed with my unending questions or just they themselves do not know the answers.

     World is a mystery to me, life full of unknown adventures. The only known place to me that time is the neighborhood (which is composed of my cousins’ house where we usually play together with other than our place), school and home. Beyond that, it is totally unknown to me, foreign. My small world seems so large for me. I thought that those places where my eyes could see are where the end of the world lies. Adults never brought me there. I just saw them go there, and I saw them return too, affirming my ignorant belief that thatis really where the end of the world lies.

...to be continued....