Point 1

There is a point in your life when you will believe everything that anyone says. It might be a clever TV ad about how cavities in your teeth can kill you or the remonstrations of a concerned parent on how eating vegetables is directly connected to being a good person. It might be an offhand comment by a classmate about your hair looking like Jesus Christ’s. It might also be the passionate plea of a priest to put all your faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. It can be anything, as long as it falls into that point in your life when you are the most gullible.

Usually, this point is anytime between that age when you begin to think and that age when you begin to think for yourself. It’s that point when you trust the world to wiggle only the truth at your face, because, really, what else can there be? 

At this point, not only will you believe what everyone tells you, you will believe them forever even though logic tells you not to. I still hold the belief, weak as it is, that I will die from infection if I touch my belly button with unsanitized hands. My mom used to tell me when I was a kid of maybe five. I still remember during odd moments like when I take a shower or do a blog post.

Some people have the misfortune of believing everything anyone says for the rest of their miserable lives.