The Olympic games and other news.

WELCOME TO OUR BLOG YOU ARE INVITED , TO BROWSE AS LONG AS YOU LIKE. Anyhow, here I will 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 about what is happening in the world. starting with the Olympic Games.   

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Some of these news can also be found at this link, What Has Happened in July 2021 .

Dear readers, in this blog we have some good news and some bad news, we will start with the good news the Olympic games and other sporting news, then we will talk about the bad news, the COVID 19 second or third wave that is upsetting us. 

Welcome to our blog, The Olympic games and other news. 

Dear readers, this is my diary to remember what is happening, in this article we will talk about the Olympic Games, then whatever happens in the world. You know everyone of us follows the Olympic games hoping that their country wins many medals. In my case I am following Australia, Italy, the USA, and a few others.

Today is the 6^th of August 2021 and the Olympic games in Tokyo in a few days will finish. We can say that Australia is doing well so far at the Olympic Games, they have already won 17 gold medals, 5 silver and 19 bronze, total 41 medals. There are a few more days before the end. As usual Australia has done well in all water games. The Australian girls have done an excellent job, they were better than the boys, but that does not matter.

I believe that Italy has not been lucky, because they have won only 7 gold medals, 10 silver and 18 bronze, total 35 medals. If you split these three ways it should have been about 12 medals each, that is why I think Italy has been unlucky.   

USA is not doing as well as it used to be, since most time they were so far ahead, but this year China is ahead of the USA so far. Anyhow, today they have 29 gold medals, 35 silver and 27 bronze. This is the greatest amount of medal overall, but China has 34 gold medals, this puts the USA in second place.

Anyhow, we have still to see the end of the games in a few days to know which country has won the most gold medals, and most medals overall. We will talk about it in another article, then.  

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Now let us talk about other sporting news.   

These are last month sporting news. Soccer. In Europe they are all waiting who is going to win this year. This year finals are between Italy and England.

Anyhow, Italy won the finals this time, and the Italian fans are happy, but the British are not, and they blame the players that missed the spot-kicks.  

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the people targeting three black players who missed spot-kicks in the penalty shootout against Italy should "crawl back under the rock from which you emerged", while his culture minister vowed to push ahead with new laws designed to curb online attacks.

Marcus Rashford, 23, Jadon Sancho, 21, and Bukayo Saka, 19, were surrounded by a support network on Monday after being subjected to a torrent of racially-charged online abuse following England's heartbreaking loss at Wembley Stadium on Sunday.

Tennis. Roger Federer out of Wimbledon, Nick Kyrgios because of an injury is out too, and is not going to Tokyo Olympic Games. Ash Barty has won Wimbledon, and we are all proud of her in Australia.

The man final was won by Novak Djokovic, the Italian Matteo Berrettini should be happy to have reached the finals, better luck next time.

Anyhow, the Olympic Games have begun in Tokyo, and most of us will be following them, to see if our countries are doing well.      

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The corona virus pandemic. 

Now, let us talk about the COVID 19. the first week of August 2021, the confirmed positive cases are over 200 million, the world death toll is over 4.2 million people and growing, in some country like USA it has slowed down, highly likely because of the immunization, in other countries it continues, it goes up and down a bit here and there. Today, the highest death tolls are USA 619,000 deaths, Brazil 559,000 deaths, India 426,000 deaths and Mexico 242,000 deaths; this are the four countries with most deaths.

Now, let us talk about the Australian position. There is a second or third wave of corona virus variant in Australia, they have started with some local lock downs, and ended up with several states lock down. Now a lot of people blame the politicians for it, the worse affected state this time is N.S.W.

Anyhow, while people blame the politician because they have not organized sooner the vaccine. But then there are people that do not want to be vaccinated, so, is hard to say who is to blame, the states or the people?

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Anyhow, in Australia the state of N.S.W. has the worst outbreak and what is happening now is the following, (and I quote)

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced a significant tightening of restrictions,

New South Wales needs to drastically overhaul its approach to coronavirus restrictions or face worsening cases, a leading health expert has warned.

"There's got to be the curfew arrangements, (stricter) mask arrangements, the restriction of movement arrangements," Strategic Health Policy consultant Professor Bill Bowtell told Today.

"We cannot vaccinate our way out of this crisis. We have got to go back to COVID zero. But we can't do it in the next few weeks."

READ MORE: Five deaths, 262 new COVID-19 cases in NSW as lockdown extended to Hunter region.

Now about Queensland, after a scare that lasted more than a week, things are better.    
Queensland Chief Health Officer Doctor Jeannette Young is "genuinely hopeful" the state will emerge from lockdown on Sunday but urged residents to remain "cautious".

"It can take only seconds for that transmission to happen, so please, just keep wearing masks, keep coming forward and getting tested, use that QR code," she said on Friday's daily COVID-19 press conference.

"It's those things that will keep us safe and enable us, hopefully, and I'd genuinely am hopeful that we  will be able to lift this on Sunday, but if we don't do all those things that will make it really difficult to lift Sunday". (End of quotes) 

I believe that I have said enough in this blog, so, see you next time, with another blog about what is happening in the world, where we will continue to talk about the Olympic games and other things. 

To see more click on this link, What Has Happened in July 2021 . See you later. 

Happened in July 2021.

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 about what is happening in the world.  

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  

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to see more click on this link,What Has Happened in July 2021 .

Extreme temperature caused by global warming, are believed to be the cause of this fire, and this is how they have reported it. 

Excessive heat -- combined with extreme drought in Western states -- is a challenge for battling wildfires. In Oregon, red flag warnings are in place as thunderstorms are expected to create new fire starts from lightning strikes over "critically dry fuels," the National Weather Service said Saturday. Nine news. 

Welcome to our blog, what is happening in July 2021

Dear readers, this is my diary of what I have heard has happened this month of July 2021. So, in this blog we will talk about the global warming, Miami Florida Condo Collapse, the pope, and some sporting news.    

Now, just as I said in my last article, I am worried about the global warming, because every day we see on the news that in some places the temperature is going up. Since there are violent storms and extreme temperature around the world, that can be said are caused by the climatic change, so, the following event is one of them.   

A few days ago, in Canada that is a cold country there over 300 people have died from a heat wave. So, let us see briefly how this event has been reported. So, I quote a short section of this news.  

(Quote) Millions of people in western Canada and the northwestern United States were under heat alerts Wednesday as the region baked in record-breaking temperatures and police reported scores of deaths likely linked to the scorching conditions.

The heat wave has stretched emergency services, with at least 134 people dying suddenly since Friday in the Vancouver area and hundreds more across British Columbia, according to Canadian police and the local coroner.

The northwestern US state of Washington recorded at least 16 deaths related to the heat wave, including two who died of hyperthermia as their bodies overheated, county health officials said.

(End of quote).

As I understand it, the extreme heat and intense drought have created this condition. Anyhow, evacuation orders were issued. There are a few fires, one has burned 750 Hectares another one 3,700 hectares. The British Columbia Wildfire Service said this is due to the hot dry weather. 

Now, let us talk about, News about California Fires. 

 Excessive heat -- combined with extreme drought in Western states -- is a challenge for battling wildfires. In Oregon, red flag warnings are in place as thunderstorms are expected to create new fire starts from lightning strikes over "critically dry fuels," the National Weather Service said Saturday. Nine news. 

There is also a fire in Sardinia Italy that again is believed to be caused by the global warming, see my Quote below.  

1.    ‘Unprecedented disaster’: Fire on Sardinia Island, Italy ...

https://dm-news.com/unprecedented-disaster-fire-on-sardinia-island-italy

26/7/2021 · A fire broke out on Sardinia, Italy, the second largest island in the Mediterranean. In the fire, which Sardinia Governor Christian Solinas described as an “unprecedented disaster”, 10 thousand hectares of land were engulfed in flames and approximately 1,500 people were …

What I want to say here is that in the world, they talk about climatic change and the need to do something about it, but then they do not do enough, for that reason things are getting worse, let us hope that soon enough we do better, and one day we are able to stop this climatic change problem.

Now, let us see what has happened after the meeting in Germany and Belgium floods, that is after the G7 meeting ended.

1.   Death toll in rises to 170 in Germany and Belgium floods ...

https://torontosun.com/news/world/death-toll-in-rises-to-157-in...

14 hours ago · ERFTSTADT —The death toll in devastating flooding in western Germany and Belgium rose to at least 170 on Saturday after burst rivers and flash floods this week …

 

I believe that since then the rain has continued in Germany and Belgium, and there is more damage and deaths.  Anyhow, I believe they have talk about global warming at the G 7 meeting, but they do not say anything about it. I hope that we all do something about it. This will do me this time about global warming, now let us talk about the pope. 

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Miami Florida, Condo Collapse.

News about Florida Building Collapse

This is one of the reports; (and I quote)

Part of a 12-storey apartment building in the Miami suburb of Beachside has suddenly collapsed in the night. About 1:30am on Thursday (Florida time), a wing of the L-shaped Champlain Towers "pancaked" without warning, tearing away walls and leaving some homes in the still-standing part of the building exposed. (End of quote).

Today they count 36 dead people in this condo collapse, but I am sure that there are many more dead people in this disaster, today it is hard to know how many there are, at one point they were talking over 150 deaths. The problem here is that it is not easy to go through the rubble of the collapsed building, because it is dangerous, and they are pulling down the rest of the building to make it easier. Anyhow, they said that more bodies were found in the wake of the demolition of the remaining half of the building. But Tropical Storm Elsa, now forecast to become a hurricane has complicated the search. So, they still do not know how many people are dead. After they know that they will start to see why this has happened and if there is somebody to blame.

What I want to point out here, is that these things should not happen anywhere in the world, with the know how that we have today they should have known that this building was about to collapse. So, why they did not know, and if they knew, why they did not evacuate the building in time.

This is America, so they should be at the forefront of everybody else, but this time they did not.  

Anyhow, we will say more if we know more.

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Pope Francis is unpredictable you know. 

This month, suddenly the pope had an operation, and nobody knew that he was sick. I believe that this pope is unpredictable, he keeps most things to himself, this is how learned about the happening, and I quote.   

Pope Francis appeared in public for the first time since undergoing intestinal surgery a week ago, seemingly in good health.  

The 84-year-old Pope, who had part of his colon removed in the surgery, stepped onto the balcony of his suite on the 10th floor of Rome's Gemelli hospital to lead his weekly prayer before hundreds of cheering people below.

He stood for about 10 minutes and made a plea for free universal healthcare. After that we do not know what is happening.

Now what is happening over there. 

VATICAN CITY -- A fraud and embezzlement trial over alleged mismanagement of the Holy See’s investments began Tuesday in Vatican City, with a once-powerful cardinal among the 10 defendants saying he remains “obedient” to Pope Francis, who stripped his privileges to bring him before the tribunal.

’’He wanted me to be on trial, and I’m coming to the trial. I’m serene. I feel tranquil in my conscience,″ Cardinal Angelo Becciu, one of two defendants who attended the largely procedural, seven-hour session, told reporters afterward.

 Becciu, a former longtime Vatican diplomat, is charged with embezzlement, abusing his office and with pressing a monsignor to recant information he gave to prosecutors about the handling of disastrous real estate deal involving properties in London.

Strange as it may seem, also the believers have problems in telling everything.  

My Olympic Games views. 

Anyhow, before we end this blog, just a few words about the Olympic games, and the countries that I follow most. While I am writing this blog, they are half way through the games. I must say that Australia is lucky and doing well on the medal tally, they have won 13 gold medals, 3 silver and 14 bronze, total 30 medals, most of them were won by swimming females, in a way they are lucky. 

Italy on the other hand is not lucky, because they have won 25 medals overall, but only 2 Gold, 8 silver and 15 bronze medals, total 25 medals. I say that Italy is not lucky, because one should think that they should be three equal parts, like 8 each.      

Anyhow, I can say more, but I believe this blog is long enough. So, see you next time.  

To see more click on this link, What Has Happened in July 2021 .

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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  

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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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