A year older and wiser?

I an now a year older and have spent some time looking
back on my life. This year marks 50 years since
I enrolled at Scotch College, Tasmania. It
was a very small school of about 250 boys then
and today it has over 1200 pupils and is
co-educational. It now is the largest
private school in this city. Naturally some of the
original buildings are still there but it has
expanded rapidly. Most of the masters are long dead.
Also some of my classmates are no longer with us, such as
Roddy Nobby,TerryH and Noel. Looking at the photos it
only seems yesterday but it is half a century ago.

What will happen in the future? Well nobody can predict
that. I just take it as it comes. I have made some
serious mistakes in my life and wish I hadn't made
them but we cannot go back and change the past. I
was married for nine and half years and divorced.
I have been engaged twice to the same lass but
it didn't work out.My father died three years back
from a war-related condition and my mother has Alzheimer's.

Change is inevitable and cannot be held back. Not
all changes are good. The older one gets, it is
easy to remember the the "good old days" when
life was not as hectic or as stressful as it is
today. But were those times really good?
Think about that!

Robin L. Harwood 0115 UTC January 17 2010