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I once attended a breakfast lecture (1980s thing) where the speaker was talking about life in general. His view was that in life, we stand in a circle and pass stuff to the person next to us - whatever you pass on eventually comes back.<br />
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I've always remembered him and wondered what he must have done to others.<br />
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He'd been in a motorbike crash where the petrol tank burst and his face and hands were terribly burned & he was completely disfigured. He recovered from that and started learning to fly - crashed the plane and snapped his spine and ended up in a wheel chair. Made his living doing motivational talks.
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There was a post on this forum - please don't ask me when or by whom - by a member who remembered his school teacher , who all the boys were scared of because of his appearance - eventually our correspondent was dared to go up and ask him how he came to be 'like that' . The teacher confided that he had been a WWII fighter pilot and had been shot down , resulting in terrible burns . never returning quite to normality , had served out his time as a navigator , then became a teacher ( if memory serves , of mathematics ) .<br />
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I , too , had a teacher , of English , Megan Munro , who most in the school thought of as something of a tyrant , but really she was a lovely lady , afflicted by a loss of sight in her latter years . Not sure how , but the story came out that her betrothed had been one of 'the few' in WWII who never returned from a mission . She never looked elsewhere and eventually passed away as 'a spinster' . She was such a clever, talented and intelligent lady ; I owe her so much - not least me becoming first in English in my school year - that I have the utmost respect for her .<br />
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I never learned her ultimate fate , since I left school and moved on , but I sincerely hope she was reunited with her true love in the afterlife .</div>
