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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of my life stories
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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