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Welcome to my article,
Dear readers, I am continuing to tell you my farm life views and experience, because it is the most important one. Anyhow, my first job in the farm, was that I had to look after a small flock of sheep, I was about 11 years old, so, to be in charge of those animals was a big ask for a small boy, but I did it anyhow, after that job I had to do many other things. All these things put together, have affected me for the rest of my life in a negative way, because I was placed in a disadvantaged position right from the start of my life.
Today, I wonder how
the young people would react if they find themselves in a disadvantaged
position as I was then. So, I ask myself, if they would have enough positive
thinking to overcome the hard life that is thrown at them, or would they
protest and run away from the problems ahead of them; as young people do these
days? But there is also something else, I have noted that today young people
like only to get in touch with other people through their mobiles, they don’t
like to talk to people face to face. Therefore, I wonder what they would have
done, if they ended up in the same position as I was, with no people around to
talk to, and no devises that you could talk to, or listen to it, like the
mobile phones, you see life was very boring and different then.
Anyhow, during our
lives I have learned that life means whatever we want life to mean to us, and different
times have different meanings. Today I have concluded that
even if we live a hard life, we need to be positive. We need to
do that if we want to overcome our difficulties. My own life is a good example,
as you are going to see while you read these articles. You see, because I have
been positive during my life, even when things went the wrong way, I kept going
the best way I could, because that was the only thing that I could do at that
time, without upsetting myself too much.
We must believe
that from our drawbacks we can learn something positive, and if these positive
thoughts are added up, we can find a way to use them. You see, today in my old
age I can write these articles in Hub Pages, in a language that is not my
mother tongue, this is not a great deal to some people, but it helps me to
think that I am not that hopeless fellow that I was when I was young, because I
have kept positive and tried to learn when I had the chance.
Now that I have
explained that. I believe that I must describe to you, what the farms were like
in those days, and how the farmers used to run their farms in a traditional
manner. And I want to point out that, the farmers and their workers were
then and are still today the most important contributors of the welfare of this
rural town of Genzano di Lucania, you see, the rural communities wherever you
go in the world, they are still those people that grow food for the rest of the
communities, therefore, the people that grow food are important contributors to
the rest of the community.
This issue also
applies to the town of, Genzano di Lucania. But there seems to be a problem
between the farmers and the town people, because the rest of the town
communities don’t recognize enough the farmer contributions, this attitude
gives rise to malcontent and make life harder for the farming people. We know
that farmers are hardworking simple people that have no much time to think
about frivolous things just for the sake of showing off to other people. You see, the know only how to farm they keep on farming.
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Farm life can be awfully hard
People that live in
the farms live a hard and lonely life; in the past farming was even harder than
today, because today even the farmers have machines that helps them farming,
they are closer to the town communities, because they can travel easily from
their farms to town, they have their mobiles and other electronic devices that
helps them stay in touch with the rest of the world. Anyhow, we must think that
whatever you do life can be hard, when that happens, we must try to overcome
those difficulties the best way we can.
Now, having lived a hard life myself, today I wonder when I see these young people struggling, while they are living in the middle of plenty, but then I realize that they do not see it that way, so, they want you to believe that they are living a hard life, when in reality they are not, if we compare it to the ways of life in the old times. Therefore, I cannot help thinking that things in the world have changed for the better.
Having said that,
now I would like to compare today life to the days when I was young. So, let me
tell you why life was harder when I was young, especially for those youths that
like myself ended in a disadvantaged position: not only we were in a
disadvantaged position and working to earn a small living that consisted of
plain wholesome food and some clothing on our back, but what was hurting most
of us young would be farmers, it was the fact that we were not appreciated from
the rest of the town community, only because we were not as good as the rest of
the community with our communication skills, owing to the fact that we were
busy working and living an isolated life in the farm, where complex
communication skills are not taught, because you don’t need them for farming,
and also we did not ware flashy garments to show off, when we went to town and
met the young town people, who were clever well dressed and they knew
everything that there was to be known.
The reason that I have been telling you this, is that it explains how I felt then and how I feel even now, about my life in the farm in those days, and I hope that there is no misunderstanding that this was a hard and boring life.
But I believe that there
is another side of this life story, because what I have said makes me reflect
about what the elders of my time were telling me, which was in effect that life
was harder when they were young. This attitude of those elders makes me think
and ask myself. Is this the ways that life looks like when we get old? Or it is
indeed that the way of life is changing for the better today I wonder? Anyhow,
I will continue to tell my life story, and you can decide for yourself,
meanwhile, I will continue to talk about my farm life views and experience.
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Let me tell you my farm life.
Dear readers, let
me continue to tell my farm life experience; starting from the beginning,
well not really from the very beginning, because I have already told you part
of my life story. Anyhow, I am going to tell my life story, starting
from the time when I had to live school and go to help in the farm, I was about
eleven years old when I went to work. Today you may find that at
that age one is too young to do any work, but in those times that was the way
that most people accepted as being normal. I know that it was unfortunate for
me because I and a few other young men were going to be the last of this old
way of life in the farms, because since then things have changed. Today they
don’t start working as young as we did; because soon after I started to work in
the farm, laws were passed from the government of those days, that is was
compulsory to go to school until you are 14 years old, therefore, I and a
few others were the last youths that started to work early in life. For this
reason, it is hard to compare anything.
But just to say one
thing or two; can you imagine a youth today that has turned eleven or twelve or
even thirteen or fourteen to have to feed and look after the farms animals in
winter time as we did, when they are in the stable because outside is very cold.
You have to go out to bring in straw and hay to feed those animals, even when
it is very cold, and then you have to take them to the well to water them, you
have also to groom them and clean the stable every day, it is a boring job to
say the least. I am pretty sure that today youths would refuse to do it,
because there is no joy or pride for doing it. Of course, there are many other
things that we did in the farms, but they are as hard and boring, so, there is
no point in telling them. I believe also that I have said enough to give you an
idea of what life was like in the farms of those days.
Anyhow, in our future articles, I am going to show you how I have made an effort to break away from the negative painful things that were holding me back in the past, see our article called, Turn negative into positive So, see you in our next article, which is going to be called, My farm life chapter. I hope my life story is interesting enough for you to read. See you soon.
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