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,  

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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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June 2021 happenings and my views.

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. 

THIS TIME WE CONTINUE TO WRITE ABOUT THE COVID19 AND OTHER THINGS.

This is the unseen enemy number one today, even if technology has put a face to this disease, it is affecting the entire world, so, it is impossible to avoid talking about it. This is why we will start to talk about it at the beginning of our news.  

Welcome to our article from, World News and My Views, June 2021.

Dear readers, a large part of this article will be mostly what is happening in Australia, because I am in Australia. Now let me explain, while I would like to keep my diary for the entire world, I have realized that I will write mostly about Australian events, USA events and Italian events.

Now, at the beginning of this month of June 2021, there are not major things happening. On the news there is the COVID19 to talk about, and people are talking about the immunization programs, which are progressing in different ways, some countries are doing better that the others. Of course, the countries that have immunized most have gained some control of this disease, but it is not easy to tell, since there is no proper way of telling, how many have been immunized and how many people are getting sick, so, we still must wait and see.

Anyhow, we want to believe that the worst of the pandemic is over, suddenly we realize that it is not so, the state of Victoria and Melbourne is having problems again with the COVID19, because out of nowhere some people are testing positive, they are worried about this new type of virus. They are talking about a type of virus called Delta, there are lock-down again, and people are not happy, but so far there are no extremely sick people or dead people, but they are just worried.

Suddenly, some people from Victoria have come to Queensland, so, now we are also worried here, I hope this disease will stop soon, because it makes us worry too much. Of course, there is the immunization that we can use, but some people do not want to be immunized, because of the reaction it can have, there have been cases that people have died from it. So, not everybody is willing to be immunized.

Now, let us check the sick and dead list to see and compare what is happening:   

Anyhow, today the 25^th of June 2021 the COVID19 continues thus;

In the world there are and have been, over 180,000,000 confirmed case positive, and 3,900,000 deaths.

In the USA has gone up to 33,700,000 positive and 608,000 deaths.

Brazil 18,200,000 positive and 507,000 deaths.

India 30,000,000 positive 392,000 deaths.

Mexico 2,500,000 positive, 232,000 deaths.

UK 4,700,000 positive 128,200 deaths.

Italy 4,255,000 positive, 127,400 deaths.

This is a short list, where it appears that the death rate may be slowing, and some countries are better off than others.

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Now let us talk about immunization, most people want to be immunized, but there are a few that do not want to be immunized, because there have been cases that had a reaction to this vaccine, so, some of us are worried, and not willing to be immunized. Anyhow, this immunization program is going to continue for a long time; but whether everybody will be immunized we do not know. 

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Various other world news

While I have started writing this article, it is the seventh of June, and the only good news today is that Meghan Markle and Prince Harry now have a daughter, this may start the healing process, with the royal family, I hope it does.

 

     Some people view about the American President Joe Biden, and I quote.    

Sky News host Alan Jones says allowing US President Joe Biden near a press conference is "elder abuse" and the media almost universally not calling out this "embarrassment" is a reflection on them.

The remarks come following the president confusing Syria and Libya in a press conference at the G7 summit.

"Why anyone would listen to Biden, I have no idea. Why anyone would let him near a press conference, I have no idea," Mr Jones said.

"This is elder abuse.

"Why the media almost universally refuse to say this is an embarrassment, reflects not only on Biden, but on the media.

 "And the democrats in America are a disgrace to turn this bloke up as the leader of the western democracies."

End of quotes.

For me Joe Biden is an old man, but that does not mean that he cannot lead America for a few years.

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Sporting notes.  

History making Socceroos.

Australia made World Cup history by defeating Jordan 1-0 in a combative encounter in searing temperatures in Kuwait to notch an eighth successive win in the first phase of qualifying.

Italian soccer. In Italy they have had this match Italy versus Turkey, the Italian team won.

Tennis, Epic Djokovic comeback to win Roland Garros.

AP  2 hrs ag

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Novak Djokovic left the court to go the locker room for a little chat with himself after dropping the first two sets of the French Open final Sunday.

Aided by flawless serving down the stretch, a determined Djokovic summoned his imperious best and came all the way back to beat Tsitsipas 6-7 (6) 2-6 6-3 6-2 6-4 for his second championship at Roland Garros and 19th Grand Slam title overall — one away from the men's record shared by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

Australia Rugby League

In Australia they have played the State of origin rugby league in Queensland, and everybody thought that the Queensland team was going to win, but as it turned out it was the N.S.W. team that won.

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Personal notes. 

Dear readers, we will talk about the G7 meeting, that has been reported thus, and I quote.

The G7 group of nations are meeting in the Cornish seaside resort of Carbis Bay from Friday for what will be the 47th summit.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is hosting the event, but what is the G7, who is heading to the summit and what is likely to be up for discussion?

The G7, also known as the Group of Seven, is an international organisation made up of the world's seven largest advanced economies: Germany, Italy, Canada, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. 

About the G7 meeting, who are meeting in Cornish seaside resort of Cabris Bay England. This sounds like that they are having a holiday that work. I hope they agree to do something useful. Anyhow, above are the three leaders that interest us most, they are Boris Johnson, Scott Morrison and Joe Bidden.  

Anyhow, today we know that they have had this G7 meeting, and all went well, at least it looks that way. So, now we must wait and see if what they have talked about can be done and will be done. Since there are not many details that can be found in the news.

Anyhow, I must say that I am not aware how much they have talked about the climatic change and what can be done. This worries me a bit, because today I have seen on TV that in some places the temperature is going up.

You see, there are many violent storms and extreme temperature around the world that can be said, that they are caused by the climatic change, so, something needs to be done.

A note about Australian politics, after a few years, Barnaby Joyce is back as leader of the National Party. He is very outspoken and colourful politician, so, for me it is a good thing he is back. Politics sometime is boring and these people make it just a bit more interesting, it is a bit like when President Donald Trump was president, you see, you may not agree with what they are saying, but you still watch them just to see the way they do it.

Anyhow, I would have liked to have writing other things in my diary, but I should be happy with what I have done for this month.

See you next time.

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This man life 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.  

BEGINNING THIS MAN LIFE STORY OR JOURNEY 

Once I was a child, then I was a man like this photo above, later I became like this photo below and now I am even older than that. 

We all would like to be young and strong forever. You see, I was like that when I was young, but life is not like that, because life is a journey, just like The Human Life Cycle shown hereunder. 

You see, people are born, then they grow up and live their life the best way they can, every life has a story of its own that can be told, if we want to. Now, that is what I want to do, I want to tell you the story of my life. 

Welcome to our article, A man life story, or journey

Dear readers, the most important story that we can tell is the story of our own life, that starts when we are born and ends when we die. So, let me tell you my life story, because even a simple life story like mine can be interesting.  Anyhow, every one has a story to tell, and these links will prove that it is so.  

Everyone Has a Story to Tell - Goins, Writer ,

You are a storyteller, and you have a story worth telling. - Get Storied,

Now, I am going to write my own life story, the way that I have lived it, even if it is boring, and I hope that I can write my life story, in a way that my readers understand. Because today we live a different lifestyle, we can misunderstand the situation. 

Anyhow, to keep my life story in a chronological order. I plan to write my life story in two parts, one part is going to be about my young life, starting from when I was born, followed by my life in our family-farm in Southern Italy, and what I did in my native town of Genzano di Lucania, which is the town where I was born and and lived my young life. The second part is going to be about my life story in Australia, since I migrated to Australia in my early twenties, and I have lived in Australia ever since.

This second part of my life story will be dealing with lots of things, it will include several articles about building houses and other building. Since I ended up working in the building industry in Brisbane Australia; so, I will describe how different building things were done in those times when I came to Australia, how these same things have progressed and how I progressed and became a bricklayer, during the time that I have been working in Australia, and I have been working as a bricklayer most of my life; and when I was not bricklaying, I was doing other building work as well.  Anyhow, these things are the things that I want to write about in my life story.

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Planning to write my life story. 

Anyhow, this article is the beginning of my life story, and it will be several articles long. You see, I want to tell you my own life story; because I have reached a certain age that makes me an old man. So, I wonder what I can show my readers to make my life story interesting to read, because I am going to tell you my life story from the beginning just as it happened, with some happy and some not so happy happenings. 

Anyhow, even though in my life story I must say that I was struggling, I hope that my life story is interesting to hear, because the story that I am telling you has already happened, so, even if there are sad stories, they are old stories, so, they are not so sad anymore and they could be compared to today’s living to make the story more interesting; you see, this is what us old people do, we want to compare today’s way of life to the ways that we have lived our own life.

Therefore, dear readers, while you are reading my life story try to compare the ways of living of those days with the ways that we are living today, because this is one of the reasons why I am writing my life story; if you do that, it will make you feel better. You see, today when I see things done from the younger generation that do not agree with my own views, I want to tell them the ways that things were done when I was young, therefore, I would start by saying; when I was young these things were not done this way and keep telling them what we did then. I hope you see what I mean. But now, let me start telling you the story of my life.

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Beginning the story of my life.   

Anyhow, I was born in 1938, before World War 2 started (1939- 1945), I was born and baptized in a Roman Catholic Church of Southern Italy like everybody else is, in the town of Genzano di Lucania, and this is how my life stared.

Now, my family had a small farm, we owned some farm land around the farm, but the land that we owned was not enough to earn a living, so, we would work the land of large land owners, who let us use their land for a price that had to be paid with an agreed amount of produce each year. 

Let me explain, when I was young approximately half of the town land, was owned by a few large landlords. These landlords would lease their land for a price, which would be a certain amount of what their land produced each year.

To understand the ownership of the land, is not easy. But I will try to explain the easiest way possible; you see, most times it is not the owners of the land that work as farmers; but are other poor people that to earn a living are working as farmers.

As this came about, we don’t know, but I believe that in the past the entire countryside would belong to the landlord that the rulers of the day gave the right to run that part of the country, so, even when I was young some of these way of living existed, the rich landowner that were able to secure the land in the past, now replaced the rulers or government landlords, or the master of that portion of the countryside, so, they would let us use their land for a price.

Anyhow, talking about the old ways, and about the landlords or the masters of the castles, it comes to my mind, that in Genzano di Lucania, there is this castle called, Monteserico, which has seen many wars of possession, to own the castle and the surrounding countryside, I could see this castle every day of my life, when I was in the farm. So, I have written this article, The Norman castle of Monteserico.

How things were run in those old times.  

Anyhow, to understand how things were in the farms, before and during World war 2, I need to tell you this; to earn a living in those days was much harder than today, not only for us farmers, who were then thought to be in a better position than the rest of the town community, because we were producing food and in war time food was hard to come by, we could always find something to eat from the fields.

So, the rest of the town were influenced by us farmers, if we were doing well the rest of the town would be doing well too; you see, in those times, the most important thing that people aimed for, was to be able to eat wholesome food every day, if you were able to do that, then you were doing well, there were no luxurious food or things to be had, accept a few times each year, like at Christmas.

Anyhow, let us compare the ways of life we had then; you see, there was not much money going around in those days, so, a lot of times we had to exchange produce or things to make ends meet. For example, we needed a blacksmith to sharpen the tools during the year to work the fields, so, we would pay the blacksmith with an agreed amount of wheat, since wheat was our main crop and most people needed wheat to make their own bread during the year.

You see, if you had wheat, you could take it to the mill to make flour and then make your own bread; therefore, by paying work done by wheat was convenient, as it was a two ways solution. It also was done like that because there was not much money around, even the farmers’ barbers used to be paid in wheat or some other produce from the farmers. Of course, there was money to do other general services, but all those services that would take a long time were done by these agreements, of so much work in exchange of so much produce. Sometimes even small things could be bought by exchanging some produce with some other things.

Now, I wonder how the younger generation would feel to live in the old days like I have described. And be a youth working in the farm from a very tender age as I did.

I am saying this because today when I look at the young people most of them walk about with a mobile talking to their friends, or listening to music, or doing whatever they can do with their mobile, then they think that life is hard for them.

Anyhow, the difference in lifestyle is so great, it is hard to believe that so many electronic devises have come out in the last fifty years, so, we are better off today; therefore, just to compare, we should ask ourselves, what the youths of today could have done in my place? I know we were struggling then, but we were happy just the same, and there were people that were worse off than I was. Anyhow, we must accept life as it is and be happy, that is the best way to behave. I think that I have said enough in this article, so, see you soon in my next article, my life my struggle. 

To see more click on this link, A man life story, or journey 

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