It’s a weird thought but the photos I am looking at were taken over two decades ago. They depict a shorter, younger Fluffy Bunny wearing a tunic, tricorne hat and white tights as May King during an infants school production. Alongside me as May Queen was one Lucy Gibbons, the hottest girl in school (even at the tender age of six I still had the self awareness to notice if a girl was a bit of alright or not).
I looked through all the faces I remember, most of whom I have not seen since I left primary school, a couple even longer than that, and they still look the same. They didn’t change. Is this just the way my mind works or is it something we all do.?
For instance, a fair few of my former classmates were with me from the age of 4 until the age of 16. In all that time, despite the ravages of puberty and growth spurts, I swear that I didn’t notice them change. A certain Doc Robbins I have known longer than any other person I still see and even to this day, TWENTY FIVE YEARS on (Christ, a quarter of a century we have been friends), he is still the short arsed guy who was always getting into trouble with the teachers and giggling his way through lessons by farting and burping with me sat right next to him doing the same. I wonder if we will change over the next twenty odd years.?
Right one other thing before I go downstairs and join a Mario Kart festival of speed…
Is it time for another world war.? I only ask because having bought a new book (Laurence Rees – Auschwitz) it struck me that if someone had eliminated Hitler back in the early 1930s then the Second World War probably wouldn’t have occured. Now I hear you ask “But why is one necessary, Mr Bunny.?” Well the truth is that it certainly isn’t but just imagine how the world would have been if WW2 had not have happened.
Would we have computers around as much as we do now.? Holiday travellers could just be starting their first journeys overseas on jet engined air liners like the Comet. The nuclear arms race would have probably started about 50 years later and perhaps even the Falkland Islands conflict would have been lost by us.
No I don’t want another war. But it does fascinate me to think just how different our lives could all be just through the removal in history of the massively fast improvement of technology that occured during both the World Wars (remember aviation was very much in it’s infantcy when WW1 started but by it’s end we saw the introduction of the heavy bomber, bomb sighting equipment, faster, BIGGER aircraft and radio communication (and very soon after, even inflight refueling for a passenger plane).! My goodness, by now we might not have been walking on the moon… if the Yanks did indeed do that first… maybe.!
“… if the Yanks did indeed do that first…”
Pft…yea, right.