1950's school class photo

Remembering the past
Recently a person who was in my class at Primary school 55 years ago (photo above) contacted me. We began to exchange e-mails recalling our school experiences and what happened to other class members we knew, and over the recent few days we have both enjoyed recalling the past and filling in the gaps in our past experiences.

It has been enjoyable catching up and I looked forward to the e-mails. But just like discussions about anything, all good things come to an end once information is exhausted.

They say that as we get older our memories of the past get sharper while our recall of recent events become vague. I think that this is right. I have found that almost insignificant past memories can be quite clear, as if they happened yesterday, and it is fun to recall them. I think too that different people recall things differently, though this was not the case at this time. An example though is of siblings in a family recalling family events. Recently while helping someone prepare their life review this became plainly obvious. I guess the attitude of the individuals both at the time of the event and during recall can determine their memories and chain of events.

Happy memories are always enjoyable and enable us to live the fun times in our lives again. I certainly have recently.

Thanks Marion…