Monomonday129: People

For today's challenge I rooted out this old photo of me and my 11 year old classmates in our last year at Southborough Primary School in 1964 with our class teacher Mrs Sansom.

I'm not in touch with any of them now and only remained in contact with two, my best friends of my teenage years, into adult life yet I found I could remember the full names of all but three whose surnames elude me; there is only one girl I can't name at all.

I wonder what sort of people they have become in the intervening 52 years, what joys and sorrows they have experienced, what they have contributed in their own small, or possibly large, way to our world.

I know that the lad sitting cross-legged bottom right became a vicar and the girl in the middle of the second row from the back was a vet. As for my best friends, Tim (second from right in second row) went into insurance; Rod (next to him on the left) has been a professional jazz drummer all his life.

Strange how people who form such a large part of our lives for significant periods drift apart and yet remain lodged somewhere in our memories.

No prizes for spotting which boy turned into this granddad? https://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2191250333458499370