My friend and i tried to create life

So when i was around 9-ish years old, me and my best friend decided it would be a good idea to try and create life.

We took a bowl (wich "mysteriously" dissappeared after), and put a bunch of weird shit in it.

Honestly, i have long since forgotten everything we put in there, but i remember it included wet packing peanuts and gravel.

After mixing all the "ingredients" together, i remarked that it needed ***blood***. I didn't mean like actual blood, but my friend didn't understand that and preceeded to add a drop of **his blood** from a would he had gotten from falling.

When my friend eventually had to go home, his dad asked what we did, and he told him: "We created life and we used my actual blood!" And the dad was like "Haha! What a vivid imagination you kids have!"

Anyways, 9 year old me actually believed this may create life, so i left this bowl of filth on my windowsill for **weeks**, until it started to grow a tick layer of mold, producing a gut wrenching smell that clung onto there for literal years. Obviously my mom removed it, but even after it had started molding i tried to get her to not 😭

The smell was so unique, i genuenly couldn't describe it to you if i tried. The best attempt at doing so would be **artificially sweetened grass.**

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