Saddened and Shocked
This bank fraud story has been rumbling around for a couple of years - it's taken a long time to investigate it. But I am really saddened because the fraudster was an old school pal of mine. The last time I bumped into him was probably about twenty years ago and I still can't believe it. Donald was one of the good guys. I can't imagine how much pressure he must have been under to drive him down the troubled path he seems to have gone down. I've just looked at my old photo album and there's a picture of a group of friends in my final year at school, 'mucking' about as we used to. Donald is in that photo, and 70's hairstyles aside, it's a great picture and brings back so many happy memories.
But pressure is pressure and it hits people in different ways, as does the pressure to be liked and to be a success. At school, everyone liked Donald, he was mostly quiet until you got to know him and he was funny, he used to be just a really genuine bloke, striving to be heard like the rest of the teenage egos around him. I feel really sad and so sorry for him that the next ten years of his life are going to be curtailed by HM. I guess that makes him the most (in)famous person in our year now. Isn't it sad what living life does to us all, how it makes us change. I wish he'd chosen to be famous in a slightly different way.
Red Writer on 06.28.06 @ 07:37 PM gmt [link][comment]
