WELCOME TO OUR BLOG, RAFAEL BLOG PLUS ANOTHER STORY. This year Rafael will be 4. So, we are going to restart posting in this blog that bears his name. It is obvious that Rafael cannot post himself, because he is too young and does not know what to do. So, I am going to help him.
As we have said at
the beginning of this article, our duty as human beings are that we must pass
on what we have learned from life, for the betterment of future generations.
So, I must start thinking what I can do to contribute to it; in order to
achieve our goal and do our own duty and contribute our share, so that, we can
improve what we have received from life and what we have learned during our own
life, I believe that we need to make a record of our lives experience, and then,
we must try to see which way they can be used better.
In my case I
believe that the best way to achieve that, is that I can write my own life
story, in my life story, I am going to say what the previous generation have
taught me, and then, what I have learned myself during my life, and thus, by
writing my life story I am passing on my knowledge for the benefit of future
generations. You see, this is just another reason for writing an old man life
story, and publish it in the Internet. So, I need to write most of my life
observation down and other life experiences, in such a way that they can be
understood and make sense to whosoever reads them.
In my life story, I
know that some of my life happenings and observation, may seem strange, so, I
am warning my readers not to give too much weight to those observation, if they don’t agree with them or they don’t
understand them fully; you see, every one of us is different, so, we perceive
things in a different way.
Anyhow, if I must
do my duty, to improve what I have received from life, I am going to tell
you my own life experiences, even if they are
going to be boring and seem strange at times, as I am sure that they are going
to seem strange, so much so that one would think that they
may be like a metamorphose. But because a man has got to do what a man has got
to do, I am doing it anyhow; so, may God help me achieve that!
Anyhow, I will continue to tell my life story
in my next article called, A man life story, or journey, because I need to give
every article a new name. See you soon in my next article of my life story.
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The Duty of any human being
The duty of any
man, or human being can be divided in two folds; one of this duty is an
idealistic duty about what a man should do for the betterment of humanity; the
other duty is how a human being or man should behave during his life, in order
to be viewed and thought to be of good character and everything else, which
enhances the quality of life itself; because these two things is what
distinguishes us from the animals’ world, and also from those do no good humans
that want to rip off the rest of the human society for themselves.
Having said that,
now let us start to talk about, that idealistic duty that a man is supposed to
do during his life, since we believe that it would be good for humanity, as the
aim is to do something for the betterment of all humanity.
Therefore, let us
start from the beginning of our lives, and use our own lives observations to
decide what is the duty of any human being; we have reasons to believe that
when a man (or woman) is born, they receive their gift of life from God and/or
Mother Nature or whatever one believes there is that makes life possible on
earth. Of course, all this is achieved through and from their parents, who are
guided from their natural instinct to do what they have to do to bring on a new
life, as we know this is the only way for life to reproduce itself and continue
indefinitely.
Now, for life to evolve and become better, it is important that we all do our
best, so, we should be careful what we do during our lives; therefore, this
gift of life that we have received from God, Mother Nature or whatever we
believe our lives come from, we have to be careful with it and we should
endeavour to guard our own lives dearly, with all our inner will and physical
strength, because our lives is a very special gift that we have received from
God, if we believe in God, or from Mather Nature or whatever one believes in.
You see, there are
reasons to believe that every one of us have our own ways of seeing this gift
of life in different ways, but for those who believe in God have an extra
special meaning, since God is the life giver of all existing life on earth.
Therefore, the life duty of a man even in the eyes of God, is that a man must
try to live his own life well, or at least as good as his parents have done
before him, and if he can, he must try to improve the standard of life he has
received. Now if there are any improvement that he has made during his life,
they should be passed onto his children, so, the next coming generation that
will come through him and from him will have a better standard of life that he
has had during his life, since he has been able to improve that standard of
life that he has received himself. So, let any good man come forward and say
what improvements he can contribute to humanity.
Now that I have
described what I think the life duty of any man should be, and of course
believing every word that I have said, there is no way that I can avoid doing
my duty for the improvement of future generations. Of course, by doing my duty
as we have said, not only I have achieved something good for the community,
therefore, I would feel that my life has been worthwhile living, because I have
done something worthwhile during my life; otherwise, I would feel that life has
passed me by and I have not done anything important, or contributed anything at
all for the improvement of the future generations. So, I believe that our life
learning must be passed on for the betterment of all humanity. Now let me
explain what I believe our other human duty is.
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The other human duty to society
We have written
above an idealistic duty of any human being, but there is another duty that
everybody should follow and everybody must know what it is, because it is very
simple; “do not do to others, what you would hate if anybody does it to you”.
Anyhow, here we want to become more personal and talk about ourselves, as we
live our lives presently.
We human beings
that pride ourselves to be at the top of all living being on earth, we should
ask ourselves what is our duty during our lives, in order to do the right
things and be proud of ourselves, just because we have done what is right; we
believe that on earth we are like gods’ and can do anything we like, so, we are
able to dominate all other living species, but what about our own specie; are
we doing the right thing to other fellow man one may ask?
The answer to that
question is hard to explain, because there are many wrong things that we still
do in this world. You see, we would like to behave like gods’, but really to be
like god, we need to behave like God, and do certain duties that is worth of
being called a good and benevolent god; but that is a hard thing to do. Anyhow,
we don’t claim to be gods, because we believe that there is a spiritual God
that is very powerful and is the master of heaven and earth, so, we can never
claim to be that powerful, at least we understand that; for this reason we give
up the idea of being gods; but let us see what our duty would be, if we want to
be at the top of every living thing and feel that we have done our duty as
well.
We believe that for
mankind to stay at the top of everything and work in a positive way, a man
should do his duty willingly; we believe that a man has got to do what a man
has got to do, because this would be his life duty, anything that is
detrimental to the rest of humanity and the living species must be avoided.
You see, we have
this inborn wish within us that we would like to be seen as great people, or at
least better than the average man that is beside us, when we do our duty
willingly; so, let us talk about and see what our duty is, if we want to be
seen and counted as a good and honest man, from the rest of the world
community.
As we have said at
the beginning, the duty of any man is two folds; the first duty is that a man
has got to live his life honestly; by this we mean that he has got to try to
live his life in a way that he is able to earn his own living, he should work
at whatever work he is able to do during his life, and he should not try to
steal anybody money or belongings, he should pay his bills and his rent in time
and be always punctual with his payment and his work duty. All these things
might seem hard to achieve; but what we have said is easy to achieve if you
live a normal life and try to do it honestly.
This is our first
duty to our community. The other idealistic duty that any of us can be called
to fulfill, we have talked about at the beginning of this article. So, now let
us go back to explain why our life learning should be passed on. We will write about this in our next post. See you soon.
Dear readers, the
story in this blog, has been modified from my Hub-Page articles. So, you can
read the original article if you click on this link,
An old man life story.
This story has been
modified because I want to use it in the blog, that I have created for my
grandchild Rafael. I hope that one day he can read this blog and compare my
life story to his own life story. Also, other people can use my life story to
compare to their life story.
So, let me tell you
a story and transport you to another place and to another time, at the time
when I was a young kid and my mother or my grandma, in the evening would tell
me a story just to keep me happy and go to bed and sleep.
(In those time there were no electrical device like today).
Oh my God! What did
I say? Tell you fairy tales that the elders of my time were telling me when I was
a young kid; no, sorry my dear readers I have made a mistake and I apologize,
because you see today I don’t remember much about those stories that the elders
of my time were telling me, even though those stories were interesting to us
kids then; here I need to tell you that in those times mothers and grandmothers
had always a story to tell the kids, it was the only way to keep us kids quiet,
because there was no TV and most time not even a radio for miles, the only news
in those times were in the newspapers, if one could borrow it from somebody
that could afford to buy it, the rest of the news were the local news that the
people of the town would tell each other, so that they would know what was
happening around them, so, people would pass them around by word of mouth.
Anyhow, the stories that these old ladies were telling us, were as good as any other story, and if the famous Brothers Grimm had known them they would have written them in their stories book. The Annotated Brothers Grimm : Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Here I want to
point out that a lot of things have changed since I was a kid, but I still
remember things that I would like to tell you, so, let me go on. Now that I
happen to be talking about the mothers and grandmothers of those times, I want
to add that they worked hard to keep kids quiet in those times, it was the only
way, it was a fact of life. Here I want to add something else that today does
not happen anymore in the western world, I am saying the western world because
what these old ladies were doing then might still be done in backward countries
today one can never know; I can imagine that there might still be a few places
where progress as not taken place, and therefore, people are still using those
skills that their forbears have used for centuries or even thousands of years.
Anyhow, let me
describe to you what these old ladies did to put a child to sleep, they would
take the child in their arms sit on a sturdy chair and sing a lullaby while
they were rocking the chair until the child would go to sleep, or do the same
thing by putting the child in a rocking cradle and rock the cradle and sing a
lullaby, those times were a lot harder than today for young mothers as you can
see for yourself, not only they had to look after the child, but they had also
wash everything by hand as there were no washing machine, or any throw away
paper devises that would keep the child clean, so, they had to rely or their
skills that they had picked up from their elders and work hard to keep things
going properly.
Today is a lot
easier for young mothers, because of the washing machine and other things that
make life less stressful, even singing lullaby is gone out of fashion, perhaps
it is because there is so much music, songs and everything else around us, so,
singing lullaby is out of fashion; for this reason you cannot hear any mother
singing their lullaby to their children, I guess it is the sign of the time,
people are not born singers, those young mothers were singing then because they
had to, it was their job to keep their children quiet even if their singing was
out of tune as long as their child was satisfied. You see, children are
attention seeker, and they were happy, if they knew that there was somebody
looking after them, and to hear their mother singing to them and rocking them
would satisfy them and fall asleep. Anyhow, this is how it was done in the old
days.
Me and Rafael in my back yard.
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Anyhow, I was
saying that the old ladies were telling us stories when we were kids; I
apologize for not being able to tell you any of those stories that my mother
and my grandmother were telling me, they were good stories for us kids, since
we kids would hear them many times and still we were interested in them,
perhaps we were waiting for the heroes of the stories to do what they had to do
to have their ways; but today I have forgotten most of these stories, therefore,
I cannot tell you any of them. Anyhow, this is not the reason why I am writing
this article; because what I want to tell you here, is the story of my life. You
see, I cannot tell you fairy tales, because I do not remember them, and people
don’t believe in fairies or fairy tales anymore. So, I am going to tell you the
story of my life, because that is the only story that I know better than
anybody else.
Now that I have
decided to tell you my life story, starting with this article, (An old man life
story), which is going to be also the name of my writings.
Anyhow, I would
like to tell you the story of to my life, in order to compare the ways of
living between these days and the old time ways; since I believe that to tell a
story and make sense to the readers, there must be a purpose for it, so, if we
try to compare this old man life story to today ways of living, then my story
becomes more interesting for everybody.
Having said that,
now I wonder what it would be like, if one could go back in time like in time
travel fictions, how nowadays ways of living would have affected the older
generations. You see, in the old days, time seemed to stand still and very
little changes happened, and if anything did happen it would happen slowly,
except when there were wars or other violent happenings, like earthquake or
diseases that could kill lots of people around; whereas today everything
changes very fast even when there are no wars, earthquake or disease; therefore,
what is new today, in a few days may be said to be old. I hope you see what I mean.
Secondly, I am
going to tell you, why I feel that I must write this story, and why I believe I
must write it. You see, I feel that every human being has a story to tell, and
anyone of us can tell our own story, if we attach enough importance to the
story that we want to tell. So, I feel that, if I tell you my life story, not
only I become satisfied that I have written my own life story, but I would also
feel that I am doing humanity a good service, because something can be learned
from my life story. I believe that it is the life duty of any man to try to
improve anything if one can, so, let me explain the way I feel about what could
or would be the duty of any man, I am going to write it in my next blog called,
The duty of any human being.
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This is our life; this is
our story.
So, let us start from the beginning.
This blog has been converted to write a diary of a newborn child, and my own
life story. You know, when a baby is born, it is the greatest gift that God and
Mother Nature could give us, in fact, we could say that it is the continuation
of our own lives. So, we welcome the newcomer and thank God for the new life. May
God help the newborn baby to be healthy and strong, and live a happy life.
Anyhow, we have opened this
blog for Rafael my grandchild, and we are going to post his photos and comments
a few things about him. But this is not enough to keep the blog going.
Therefore, I am going to publish the story of my life in between, starting from
when I was young like him. I will post it in small sections. Anyhow, my story
can be used to compare today ways of life, with the life we used to live
before, I hope people will appreciate it.
So, this blog is going to be a mixed up
of old and new, because we want to talk and paste photos of Rafael and talk
about my life story, as in An old man life story,
and at the same time, paste some photos and comment about my grandchild RAFAEL.
So that we can compare the old way of life to today way of life. I am going to
keep these writing and posting in the same order that they are written in my
blog, http://rafael-mo.blogspot.com.au, because I want to load this page on Google drive and
then, it is easier to read my diary, in the same order that it has been
written, instead of reading it the way is appears in the blog, which is a
diary, but you read the last blog first, instead of starting from the
beginning. So, let us hope it works.
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Rafael first birthday, he is so cute.
Anyhow, this is the reopening blog, for the time being, see you in our next blog.
