11th October, 2009 - I Was Nearly Posh

I nearly went to private school. The reason for this was that I was struggling a bit academically just towards the end of primary and beginning of secondary. I had missed a ton of classes on account of my tonsils. My tonsils had been bullying me, and I was afraid to go to school, because they were waiting for me outside Mr Todd’s house, ready to steal my packed lunch.

No. Wait. That’s not right. I had tonsillitis a lot. That was it.

Anyhow, my folks admitted to me some years later that my name was down to sit an exam to see if I’d get a bursary, but I couldn’t make it along because of – you guessed it – the tonsils. I sometimes wonder how life would have turned out if I’d gone down that path. Everything would have been different. I’d have had completely different friends. I wouldn’t have got into dram (at least by the route that I did which was through a former pupils club from my school). My girlfriends would have been different.

Our lives are peculiar sequences of chance. There are billions upon billions of possible “me’s” out there in the set of all possible universes. What an odd thought.