My farm life experiences.

Dear readers, in this blog, we have written about D.I.W. building works. We have written and continue to write about social issues. Now, I am going to publish my own diary and what I see happening in the world, and when I do not have much to say, I will write posts from my life story.  

So, today I am writing a post from my life story, that I have called,  my farm life views. 

Anyhow, you can also find this article at, http://oldman-lifeworks.blogspot.com, 

My other sites; http://frankmenchise.com,http://diybrickwork.com,http://manneedsgod.co.uk  

You can see more at this addresses, DIY brickwork  and,  http://diybrickwork.com,  

To see more visit this link, My farm life views 

Now, my first job that i had in the farm was that I had to look after a small flock of sheep and a couple of goats, I had to take the flock of sheep in the fields, so, they would eat whatever there was in the fields. After the wheat harvest they could also craze in the wheat fields.  

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Welcome to my article,  My farm life views

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. 

To see more click on this link, My farm life views.  

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Farm life in the past.

Dear readers, in this blog, we have written about D.I.W. building works. We have written and continue to write about social issues. Now, I am going to publish my own diary and what I see happening in the world, and when I do not have much to say, I will write posts from my life story.  

So, today I am writing a post from my life story, that I have called, My farm life experience. 

Anyhow, you can also find this article at, http://oldman-lifeworks.blogspot.com, 

My other sites; http://frankmenchise.com,http://diybrickwork.com,http://manneedsgod.co.uk  

You can see more at this addresses, DIY brickwork  and,  http://diybrickwork.com,  

To see more visit this link, My farm life experience. 

This is a loaded horse drawn cart. In the past bulky things were collected from the fields and taken to the farm house, with cart like this, usually it was hay or any other produce that grows in the fields, or wheat bundles that the drawn harvester machine had made, they were taken to the farm house to be threshed with the threshing machine.  

 

Welcome to my article, My farm life experience. 

Dear readers, this article is another chapter of my farm life story,  so, let us continue to tell my story.

Anyhow, our lives are full of surprises, and we must try to adapt whatever happens. This observation has made me think about things that have happened in the past. So, at this very moment, because I am mentally comparing the past with the present, and being June wheat harvest time in Italy, it has come to my mind the wheat harvester machines and other machines that the farmers’ have today. So, I wish we had those machines when I was young, it would have been a lot easier to work the fields and harvest; I know that our small farm could not afford them, but we could have hired one anyhow. I am going to paste a link of those machines that would have made life a lot easier for us, especially the wheat harvester, if they were available when I was young,

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Wheat+Harvesting+Machine&FORM=RESTAB

Anyhow, looking back at my life and what I thought when I was young, I believe that there are times in our lives, when we don’t know whether the way that we are living it, is good or bad for us, but we will discover that life value much later in our lives. Having said that, now let us continue my life story. 

Anyhow, from my own point of view, I believe that you are going to agree with me that the way of life that I and those other youths, who had to live like me during those old times in the farms, it was a way of life that to most of us today may seem archaic, unreal and unfair, and indeed it was unfair to myself and to all those youths that ended up in a similar position as myself in their small family farms.

But at the time when this happened, it did not seem that bad, because we were so young when we started to work in the farms, so, we didn’t know about the drawback, because this way of life had been practiced from our forebears for many generations before us.

Therefore, nobody knew then of the adverse influence that it would bring to us in the future, since we didn’t know that we were placed in a disadvantaged situation; even our parents did not see how bad the situation could become, because they could not see how fast life was going to change, and even if they did guess that things were going to change, they didn’t know what else to do, since nobody knew in those times anything else, except that they had to follow the previous generations. So, let us talk about this unfair situation that we were in, while working in the farms in those times.

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Farm life unfair situation. 

Now, this situation that I am talking about was most unfair to the youths working in the farms, because it affected only us, but not all the young citizens of this rural town of Genzano di Lucania, because they would be living a better life in town.

So, as it happened, we a portion of the young citizen of Genzano became caught in a disadvantaged position including myself, and this position would affect us badly for the rest of our lives; but we didn’t know then that it was going to be a disadvantaged position in the future, and we did not know what else to do either, and there was nothing that could be done either. The few exceptions were those youths that their families owned a lot of land. Because it would be an advantage for them to stay in the farms and learn their future trade and then use their farm knowledge in the future to their advantages, in their own family farms, if they had a large enough farm to run.

But for the rest of us young men, who were working in small farms like myself, and did not own enough land to secure a good living in the future, what we were doing then would turn into a disadvantaged position later, but at the same time we had no other opportunities in life but to continue the old tradition of farming; because this same tradition of farming had been a way of life to the rural community of this agricultural town for centuries before us, therefore, when I was young it was thought to be the only way to earn a living, if you happened to own any land at all, you were doing well. So, we had to be trained to be farmers in order to look after our own small farm when we would become older, anyhow, in those times there was not much else that could be done, but this helping in the farm and training to be a farmer, became a great disadvantage, because of the changes that followed.

This way of living that I am talking about here would be better understood, if you read this other article that we have written in Hub Pages, Farming today compared to the old way, in this article we are describing how farming is changed and other ways of life as well. 

To understand what we want to say here, we should imagine ourselves living in the past and doing what needed to be done to feed yourselves. This old man here is cutting the wheat plants with a sickle, making small bundles, to be collected in bigger bundles, then taken to the farm house to be threshed.   
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Anyhow, to be fair, I must add that there were also a few other youths that their families were so poor, but they were working in the farm like us by looking after the farm animals and other small tasks, they had no land at all, so, they worked in the farm to be fed and a few other things, or a small pay, if the farmer could afford that. In those times there was no government help and everybody had to find a way how to earn enough to feed themselves and their families.  

Anyhow, nobody can be blamed for putting us youths in such a position, which in the end resulted in a disadvantaged position: because the same way of life had served the same community of farming for centuries, and those people were not disadvantaged at all. Because in those times, people used to accept life the way it was, if they had enough food on their table every day and a few other things, they were happy. But today because of the enormous change of the modern era, which has brought with it changes in the value of work that any worker does. Because of this change I became disadvantaged. But this is not all, because there is more that can be said, about the way we became and the ways that we were treated from the rest of the town community. But I suppose this was my destiny. 

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My own harsh destiny.  

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Anyhow, I believe that we are born in a family that also decides our destiny, because of the way that family lives and lived for centuries. Some of us believe that we are born with a destiny to fulfill, and if it is so; then my destiny is not a bright one, because from the beginning of my life I have had a hard life and this has continued during my life, perhaps it will still continue until I die. 

Anyhow, my farm life when I was young, was unfair to me and to those youths that had to live in the farm as I did; this fact of life is the main issue that I want to point out here, to show you how I had to struggle and to suffer while I was living in the farm, and in the future as well, as you will see, from these articles that I am writing. In fact, for me life was going to be much harder than I thought, since that way of life left me so far backward, because of that isolation that existed in the farms, I even lacked in local general knowledge about the people of the town, and also in communication skills including all those nice things that a person says and does, which would make that same person attractive to the rest of the community.

Here I must say that this early disadvantaged way of life, has affected me for the rest of my life, and although I have tried to improve myself during my life, I have never been able to catch up with the rest of the world. So that, I feel it within me even now, as if I will never be completely satisfied with myself, because I think that I could have been better off, if I had a better way of life when I was young.

But since what’s been done is done, so, we cannot go back and do it in a different way, I am stuck with it. Therefore, I had to put up with my backward way of life; and I had to accept that the only possible way that was left for me to earn a living for the rest of my life, it had to be hard physical work, which I did; and this hard work has helped me to overcome some of my drawbacks. From this life experience we could say that we should always try to improve ourselves and work hard for it, even when it is hard for us to find an easy way of life, if we are able to keep this attitude and work hard during our lives, we can overcome many issues that could otherwise run us down completely.

Anyhow, the most important years of my young life, was spent in the farm, this was no good, because a youth would be better off to stay in a society and learn the ways of that society, and try to find out the meanings of life, which would help him to learn how to deal with his life in the future in the society that we would be living in; anyhow, those years were spent to live in our family farm and not in the town itself, and this did put me in a disadvantaged position from the start; because everything in the world was changing too fast and farming the old way was on the way out. 

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Breaking away from my farm life  

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For about twelve years I lived this farm life. The only time that I had a break from farming was when I was called to go in the army, which in Italy was a compulsory service to the country, which every able young male must serve when one turns twenty-one years old or soon after that. Then when the army released me, I migrated to Australia. I was then in my early twenties. I was young and not afraid to do hard work, since I had learned in the farm that we needed to work hard to earn our living.

Now, to understand how unfair it was, I have to convey to you the different set up of this town of Genzano; the way that people separate each other in classes, not because they like to be different to each other, but because they are different, therefore, they think and talk in different ways, so, they group themselves with their equals, because they feel more at ease that way: But in reality they are all equal, because all the groups need each to live.

Anyhow, at a certain stage of my life I become aware that I had to break away from farming, because a lot of things were changing and we didn’t earn enough from the small farm that we had, so, it was time for us young farmers to change, and I did.

Anyhow, in my next article, let me continue to talk about my farm life views, and the town I came from, followed by several other articles about my farm life, and the town of Genzano and its communities. 

To see more click on this link, My farm life experience. 

So, see you next time in my next article, my farm life views. 

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An old man story.

Dear readers, in this blog, we have written about D.I.W. building works. We have written and continue to write about social issues. Now, I am going to publish my own diary and what I see happening in the world, and when I do not have much to say, I will write posts from my life story. 

So, today I am writing a post from my life story, that I have called, An old man story. 

Anyhow, you can also find this article at, http://oldman-lifeworks.blogspot.com, 

My other sites; http://frankmenchise.com,http://diybrickwork.com,http://manneedsgod.co.uk  

You can see more at this addresses, DIY brickwork  and,  http://diybrickwork.com,  

To see more visit this link, An old man story

    

This old man in the photo working in the garden, could have been me, since I have been working as a bricklayer and laying pavements most of mt life. But before that, I have been working in the farm, as you will see from my life story. 

Welcome to my article, An old man story. 

Dear readers, this article is the continuation of, My life my struggles, 

 Anyhow, in this article, I am going to lament about the life that I had to live when I was young. But one should keep in mind that life is what it is and we cannot change it. So, we should accept life the way it is and try to do the best with what we have, that is the only positive thing that we can do, we need to think positive all the time, if we think positive, then life becomes easier, so, your life experience will always count for something positive, even if we have missed good opportunities, perhaps because it was our destiny. 

Anyhow, I must say that, we try to live our lives the best way we can, and we wonder at those things that have happened to us during our lives, some of which are good and some not that good; but once we have lived those happenings, they all seems to be a dream, they are like a dream and distant memories that will come back to our minds when we try to remember them, sometimes we wonder at the amount of events that we have been through during our lives, and it seems almost unreal that we have gone through all those things, but nevertheless it has been our life that we have lived, and it can be told if we want to. So, we want to tell our life story hoping that there are people willing to read our story, perhaps to compare it with their own life story.  

So, I am writing my own life story; but I don’t remember how or when this idea of writing my life story has started in my mind. Anyhow, the reason why I started to write it does not matter much, because there are many people that write their own life story. So, I want to tell you my own life story, to prove to myself that everyone of us has a story to tell, whether my story might not be as great as somebody else story it does not matter much, because here we are not competing who is telling the best story, we are only trying to tell our own life story, but every story has its own merits and can be interesting in different ways; sometimes a story can be interesting because it is unique in its own ways; and I believe that I have had a hard life when I was young, and it was unique in its own ways, therefore, when I may lament about this hard life that I have lived, that is the way that I have lived it, and that is the way that I am telling it.

Because I am telling you about this hard life that I have lived, I am worried, because I guess that not many people enjoy reading somebody else story, when all they do in their story is to lament their bad luck. But anyhow, this is my real-life story, so, let us see what this old man (that is me) is going to tell about his life story, his observation, and his missed life opportunities and lamenting; because my life has not had anything exciting that would attract the attention of the readers, it was a very simple life and no unforeseen happy events happened.

Anyhow, even though I am writing my life story now, I am still trying to learn how to write it; Autobiography - How to Write Your Autobiography, but let us continue and tell you about, my life missed opportunity.  

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 My life missed opportunities. 

Here I am telling my life story and those lost opportunities that make me sad. But I want to tell you my life story, because it makes me remember my memories and experiences that have shaped my life, so, let me tell you my story from the beginning of my life, where I am going to tell you who I am, where I have been, where I am now and how I got here, and now I am writing my own life story. I am writing this story hoping that one day my family and friends may read my story and understand a bit more about me, I know that this is wishful thinking, because families and friends don’t read their stories.

Anyhow, I have decided to tell you my life story, because something has happened to me recently; this something has pushed me to start writing things including my life story. You see, now that I am in my early sixties, therefore, I am in the later part of my life span. I must say that I am experienced with life, and with what life can throw at us, and sometime it can be rather bad; one of my latest experience has made me feel so inadequate and frustrated, for not being able to reach out and make happen, what I wanted to happen. And this is one of the reasons, why I started to write my own life story.

I must say, that to be able to write in Hub Pages and have my own article in a public place to be read from anybody, it makes me feel proud of myself; since in the younger part of my life I have never believed that I could do that, even if I am doing it only in a small way; this makes me feel that I have fought back that feeling of being inadequate and now I feel more confident about myself, because I am writing my story in Hub Pages, but let us go back to my life story.

Anyhow, I must also say that I have felt many times that feeling of being inadequate during my life, because I was put in a disadvantaged position when I was young, and for that reason, I was not able to better myself to a satisfactory standard, which I would have been able to achieve if I had the chance; so, these are my laments in this life story.
For these lost chances I cannot blame anybody, and I can’t even blame my mother for putting me in a disadvantaged position, when I was young, because she was forced from disastrous and tragic events beyond her control. So, I have come to the conclusion that I can only blame Fate, because it struck a terrible blow to our family when I was young.
Therefore, if in my younger years I had been in a position to go to high school at least for a few more years, or perhaps as long as my capacity to learn was used to the maximum; Then I could have learned whatever they teach at school, and at the same time, I would have been in a more social environment, where I would have been able to improve my social and communication skills while I were at school, those skills which are so important to communicate well with the rest of the community.
Therefore, if I had acquired those social skills when I was young, I would have been accepted better socially, and I would have felt happier with myself, instead of feeling sometimes left out from the mainstream, and feeling concerned and isolated.
You see; if I had the chance to learn at high school, then from that extra education I could have been more successful later on in my life, because I could have used my acquired knowledge, and those social skills which I never had the chance to learn then, because if I had, I could have achieved better things and gained better rewards from within this society that we are living in today, which seems to me that it is more and more demanding about these social aspect.

This is one of those things that has made me feel inadequate, and it has followed me most of my life. You see, those social skills that I am talking about must be learned when one is young, while frequenting high school and mixing with society around yourself, so, these social skills become part of ourselves, and can use them to our own advantage all our life. For me it was not like that at all and most of those skills that we require in life I had to learn bit by bit the hard way, the best way I could. But now let us write about our own destiny if there is a destiny.

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Perhaps we have our own destiny. 

Today I believe that we have our own destiny, are born to live our destiny as written in God’s book, so, we are forced to live our lives according to what is written in it, therefore, our life is going to be influenced by life events that are beyond your control, but that is no good.  

You see, if we believe that our destiny is fixed, then there is no way that we could change it, so, it is better if we believe that we can change it somehow. But I believe that there is a sort of destiny because of what has happened to me, and it continues to happen even today.

Anyhow, I have said, I have come to blame my fate for most of my life short comings and pains. Because I believe that when I was born, I was born with a good chance to live a better life; but it was not to be, that is the reason why I think it was my destiny. So, if you read my life story, I am sure that you may ask. Why is it that I am telling you mostly sad stories? Is it possible that in my whole life, I had so many sad happenings and not any happy ones?
Well, I should say that I have had a few happy happenings, but if I had to tell you about my happy happenings they would be so few and boring, and nobody could be interested to hear them, because they seem to me that they are normal things and not important at all.
So, I would like to talk about those happenings that have affected my life in a negative way, one could say that they have made me struggle during my life, as I have said in my article, My life my struggles

Anyhow, I am thinking that if my writings survive in a hidden corner for a generation or two, I believe that in several years when time passes away, then whoever reads my life story, will find them more interesting, because life was so different in the old days, because we used to live in a different way altogether, you see, I have started to live my life long before the great changes of nowadays, so, this difference is what may make this life story interesting to read.

And if what I am writing here is going to be useless anyhow, I will do it just for practice, so that I can improve my English language and my writing skills. So that, I could feel more confident, instead of feeling helpless.  

So, please don’t be annoyed by my life story, and allow me to write a few things that I have gone through during my life. I would like to write them; so that I could show you how hard life was then and how hard life can sometimes be, since this applies particularly to me; because during my life so many things have changed since I was a child; I know of course that things will still keep changing in the future, and very likely even faster than before, but now because we know of the oncoming changes we can accept them more easily than before, therefore, they will not seem that bad to us, because at least we believe that we know where we are going in the future. 

Now, this blog is shorter then the original one, so, to see the original article and to see more, click on this link below, 

 An old man story. 

See you next time.

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My life my struggles.

Dear readers, in this blog, we have written about D.I.W. building works. We have written and continue to write about social issues. Now, I am going to publish my own diary and what I see happening in the world, and when I do not have much to say, I will write posts from my life story. 

So, today I am writing a post from my life story, that I have called, My life my struggles. 

Anyhow, you can also find this article at, http://oldman-lifeworks.blogspot.com, 

My other sites; http://frankmenchise.com,http://diybrickwork.com,http://manneedsgod.co.uk  

You can see more at this addresses, DIY brickwork  and,  http://diybrickwork.com,  

To see more visit this link, My life my struggles. 

We believe that life is a beautiful thing, it is not easy, but it is a beautiful struggle. Anyhow, we must live our lives trying to improve ourselves. You see, if there is no struggle there is no progress, we must do it, so that the following generation can live a better life that ourselves. 

Welcome to my article, My life my struggles. 

Dear readers, we invite you to read, “My life my struggles”, and then compare my life struggles with somebody else struggles, or with your own struggles, if you feel that you are struggling during your life and you want company, but try to do all this with a smile, even if you are feeling run down.

This life story is another article of a simple man life story, that is being told from the old man himself and that old man is me. So, let me tell you my life story starting with the memories of my life, whether these life memories are happy happenings or sad ones, today they will not make much difference, since they have happened in the past. So, let me talk about the struggles of my life, since life may be said to be a beautiful struggle; (You see, we need to think that life is a beautiful struggle, even when there are times when it hurts, because that is the only way to enjoy life) I am saying this because I feel that I have been struggling all my life, in fact, I feel that I am struggling even now, while I am writing my life memories. 

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Anyhow, in this article let me tell you some of the struggle of my life, as we all know during our lives there are times when we have to struggle. But I must tell you that even though life was hard for me, I still enjoyed it, because life is a beautiful struggle. 

My beautiful life struggles

Dear readers, let me tell you that these are the struggles of life of an old man, who had to struggle his entire life, because this must have been his destiny, and even now is struggling in order to live his life in full; one can describe him as a born fighter who kept battling on during his entire life, and continues to struggle even now.

So, as it often happens to the best of us, sometimes he won his battles and sometimes he lost them. And although when he had a tough battle a scar or mark was left on him for life, he never thought to surrender to the adverse elements that life brought to him; but he kept battling on his entire life from his very tender age onward. And no matter how hard it became for himself he kept struggling on, to conquer those negative elements which can make life miserable.
He had to do it all by himself; because there is no other way that a person can live his life, but one has got to keep fighting on and never give up, no matter how hard it becomes during one’s life, starting from the very beginning when we are born. And this is what I’d like to talk about here which is going to be never the less the very same story of my life. 

There are people that ask, what is the meaning of our life. Here I must say that I do not know, but life just happens, so, life means whatever we want it to mean, but we should try to do our best with our life, even when things go the wrong way, we must keep a positive attitude. 

Let us try to explain our life 

Anyhow, looking at what life brings us during our life, I must say that, it seems to me that we are born to struggle, to find the best way to live our lives. since there are no other ways available to us, so, we must look after ourselves the best way we can.

But I would like to point out to you, that there are people in the world today, who believe that we are born to suffer, as if suffering is necessary for living our lives in full. But I do not agree with them on this suffering part, because I don’t believe for a single moment that we are born to suffer. The reasoning is that if we believe that we are born to suffer, then, when something goes wrong that makes me suffer, I would have to accept suffering as it was, and I would do nothing to improve my situation. To me this situation is absurd, therefore, I prefer to believe that it is always possible to do something to improve my situation, even if is going to make me struggle hard for a long time.
So, let us think about what we have said, because we want to discuss it a bit more, about this subject of struggling or suffering. Since we want to convince you including ourselves, that what we believe about our life struggle is correct; so, we hope you do not mind following what we have to say next; because we want to explain struggling and suffering for comparison sake.

So, let us talk about this struggling or suffering, because we want to see if what we have said makes sense. So, let us make this observation; we must say that generally speaking, any parents would wish from the bottom of their hearts that their children will have an easy and happy life to live.
And if we were to ask any parent, or would be future parents: if they would like to have children, knowing in advance that their children must suffer during their life time, we are sure that they would never agree to have children under such conditions. You see, there is no point to have children, if they must suffer: We want to have children only if they can live their life better than our own lives, or at least equal to our ways of life.
Having said that now we want to explore the reasons why people think that we are born to suffer; we must say that we don’t know exactly how and why, this belief that we are born to suffer came about, even though we see the reasons why we must struggle during our lives, but let us try to think and explain the suffering part.

We have reasons to believe, that this suffering beliefs is part of some religious beliefs or cults, because for religious leaders telling people that life is a struggle is not enough. Because they want to control us by scaring us, and religions are good at scaring and reassuring us; therefore, religious leaders try to scare us somehow, so that, we would do what we have been told to do. We are saying this because it is a well-known fact that religious people have had some influence in these suffering beliefs, you see, for a long time they have preached and believed that the flesh had to suffer, and only through suffering the soul would become holy in the eyes of God. Here we want to ask this; is it necessary that the body must suffer, for the soul to become worthy in the eyes of God? Personally, I do not see the need for the body to suffer, so, religious people have a mistaken view about this suffering of the body.

 

Let us talk about the religious mistaken views. 

Anyhow, we believe that the belief that we are born to suffer, it has come from religious beliefs. Now, to explain that, we need to state our own religious beliefs, which are as follow; we believe that we don’t see the need for the flesh to suffer, for our soul to become holy in the eyes of God. Therefore, we believe that religious people have made a mistake, when they say that we are born to suffer. We cannot believe that we are born to suffer, and therefore, their beliefs about suffering are wrong.

They are wrong, because if you are a believer and you believe in God; how could you ever think that we are born to suffer? How could you ever think that? Just think about it! How could God Our Heavenly Father, who is the perfect Father in every way do that to us. For what reason should God make us, just to make us suffer?

No! The whole thought of suffering is absurd, because any good father loves his own children, therefore, he wishes that his own children should live a healthy and happy life. Therefore, God who is the best father above us all, must have made us to be free, so that we could choose our own way of living, and if during our lives there happens to be painful times, we have to rectify it ourselves in our own way, even if this will make us struggle to overcome the suffering part.
Therefore, we are sure that we are not born to suffer, but perhaps we are born free to do whatever comes our way, but sometime we have to struggle to find our own way out, from the problems that we are facing at that particular time. 

Now I want to tell you, that I understand that life is not easy, except for a few people that are born lucky. Therefore, for those people who think that life is easy, I am pretty sure that they are in the minority; and ether they are the lucky few, which everything has been done for them, or they are fools and they cannot see what life is about.
Indeed, it is a well-known and acknowledged fact of life, that there are several kinds of struggles in our life; you see, even now while I am writing this article, I am struggling to write it the best way I can. We can also add here that as a matter of fact some great man have acknowledged of the existence of these struggles, and the existence of an inner struggle which we feel within ourselves most times.

Now, some of these men have even expressed their views in public, in a direct way or an indirect way. In my life time for instance, ‘The Right Honorable Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser,’ when the public was complaining that life was a struggle for them under his government policies; He used to say to them and I quote; ‘Life is not meant to be easy’.
Therefore, I feel so sure to admit that there are struggles in our lives, even if we don’t want them to be there, and I can assure you that even when we are not struggling, life is not meant to be easy, because, we will always be struggling as something will bother us, one way or another.
Therefore, my own life being just like anybody else, or perhaps worse off in some respect, I would like to tell you to the extent of some personal details, so that I will be able to show you and prove my point that in order to survive I had to struggle, but that is okay and I accept it.
So, it seems to me that from here onward I am going to tell you ‘The struggles of my life.’ Or perhaps should I say the story of my life; since this is the only issue that I am sure to know better than anybody else, and that there are some personal reasons to tell the story of my life.

 

Why I tell you the story of my life. 

I would like to tell you the story of my life, just the way that I have lived it; with so many good chances that were partly wasted, because I was unlucky and badly prepared when I was young, so, I wasn’t able to understand fully that they were good chances, and that I could have done something about them. So, here I want to comment about the anguish that those wasted chances brought with them, at the time when they happened and later during my life. So, when I think about the past with all its suffering that I have been through, I believe that I could have lived a better life, if I had been better prepared for it when I was young. So, if you think that I am lamenting about my own life you are right. Anyhow, one of the reasons for telling you my life story, it is that you can compare my life story to your own life story, hoping it could help you, because then you will know then that you are not alone struggling, and most times we are all struggling.

Let me add other reasons that have made me write this article about my life struggles, even though here I am trying to tell you the story and struggles of my life, I would like to see some benefit flow to my readers, perhaps in the sense of looking at life in a more acceptable way, when things go wrong and we have to struggle; then they may remember my life story and say to themselves, life is hard for me these days; but I am not alone, because lots of other people struggle during their lives, and they are even struggling these days. You see, once you know that you are not the only one struggling in life, and you think about it, everything looks a bit better for you.

I believe that I have said enough in this article about, my life my struggles. So, I want to conclude by saying that I am going to continue to write my life story, with my next article called, An old man story  See you in our next article. 

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