My farm life experience and views
The first real job that I did in the farm was to look after a small flock of sheep and a couple of goats. we had to take to flock of sheep in the fields, so that they would eat whatever there was left in the field. As I have explained in my hub 7
My farm life experience and views
Dear readers, this
article is the continuation of our previous article ‘My farm life experience’
all being part of ‘An old man life story, so, let me continue to tell you the story. Now, even though
we have been talking about my farm life experience in our previous hubs, at
this point of time, I would have liked to go straight to the point again
telling you all about my own personal life experience in the farm when I was
very young, which is the most important experience during my whole young life,
and which I ought to tell you as it was, because of the ways that it has affected
me, if I want to make my point about my young life experience in the farm;
since it is my first life experience in the real world, and therefore the most
important one.
So, just to make my
point here, I have to tell you that my first real job in the farm was, that I
had to look after a small flock of sheep, I was about 11 years old at that
time, so to be in charge of those animals was a big ask for a small boy even
then, and when we look at the standard of life that we have today, it looks
even worse, but somehow I did it anyhow, after that job I had to do many other
things. All these things put together, I have to tell you right away that it
has 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 young life, as I have
already mentioned before.
Now, while I am
writing and thinking about my younger life, at the same time I cannot help to
wonder how the young people of today would react if they find themselves in a
disadvantaged position as I was then. So, I ask myself again and again would
today young People have enough positive thinking to overcome the hard life that
would be thrown at them, or would they just keep protesting and run away from
the problems ahead of them; as the young people usually 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, and they avoid all sorts of problems if they can.
Therefore, I wonder what they would have done, if they would end up in the same
position as I was, as there were not many people around to talk to and above
all there wasn’t any devise that you could talk to or listen to it like today
on the mobile phones, you see life was very different then.
Anyhow, during our
lives I have learned that life means to us whatever we want life to mean to us,
and also, different times may have different meanings for every one of us. Today
I have come to the conclusion that even if we live a hard life, we need to be
positive during our life, and that is what we have to do all the time, be
positive if we can. We need to do that if we want to overcome our difficulties.
My own life is a very commune good example, as you are going to see while you
read these articles. You see, just because I have been positive during my whole
life, even when things went the wrong way many times, but I just kept going on
the best way I could, because that was the only thing that I could do at that
time. The reality of life is that we are forced to do whatever life throws at
us, so, we better do it without upsetting ourselves too much.
We have to believe
that from our drawbacks we can always learn something positive, and if these
positive thoughts are added up, one can find a way to use them. You see today
in my old age I am even able to write these hubs in Hub pages in a language
that is not my mother tongue, this might not be 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 whenever I had the
chance, I hope that you see what I mean?
Now that I have
explained the position that I am in today, which one could say that it is a
sharp contrast to the ways I have been living when I was very young. Anyhow,
today in order to continue to tell you my farm life story, I believe that I
have to describe to you first of all what the farms were like in those days,
and also how the farmers used to run them in a traditional manner at the time
when I was young. And I want also to point out to you that, the farmers and
their workers were then and are still nowadays 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 other communities, therefore growing any sort of food
will always be necessary, for these reasons the people that grow food are very
important contributors to the rest of the town community; this would also apply
to our rural 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 seem to recognize enough the farmer contributions, this attitude gives
rise to some malcontent and make life harder for the farming people. We all
should 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, like most people of the rest of the community practice everywhere, and
this is one of the problems between these communities, but the farmers knowing
that they know only how to farm they keep on farming.
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Farm life can be very hard
As we were saying
above people that live in the farms live a very hard and lonely life; in the
past farming was even harder than it is today, because today even the farmers
have lots of machines that helps them farming, they are also a lot closer to
the other communities than they used to be, 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 have to think
that wherever you are and whatever you do life can be very hard sometime, when
that happen we have to try to overcome those difficulties the best way we can.
Having this view in
mind and having lived a rather hard life myself, I look at today world and
wonder when I see these young people struggling, while they are really 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 a lot for the
better, therefore I cast my mind back to the times when I was young and I
wonder what is wrong with the youths today, why they do not see all the good
things around them that are available to them. I know that some of them do, but
a lot of them don't.
Having said that
now it would be good if we could 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 to work in the
farms when we were very young: not only we were in a disadvantaged position and
working just to earn a small living that consisted of just plain but 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 seemed so clever well dressed and they knew everything that there
was to be known.
The reason that I
have been telling you all this is that, it explains better how I felt then and
how I feel even now about my life in the farm in those days when I was young,
and I hope that there is no misunderstanding that this was a hard and boring
life, I am writing this article today because I would like to point out to you
that my life experience in the farm of those days has a very clear meaning to
anybody that happens to read my life story, even if it is only a plain and
boring life story that I am able to tell you here.
But I believe that there
is also another side of this life story, because what I have just said makes me
reflect about what the elders of my time were telling me, which was in effect
that life was much 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 you my life story here under dear
readers and you can decide for yourself, and also when you read my next few
hubs, where I will continue to talk about my farm life experience.
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Let me tell you my farm life
Dear readers, let
me continue to tell you my farm life experience; perhaps you remember that in
one of our hubs called, The heritage story, we have written again about the
town that I came from and some of the ways of life of those times including my
own life, so, now I would like to go back and continue to tell you all about my
own life again that I lived in this town, starting from the very beginning,
well not really from the very beginning, because I have already told you part
of my life story in the hubs: An old man life story; a man life journey; My
life my struggles; an old man story; My farm life experience; Simple man life
observation and then more hubs about Genzano the town I came from.
Therefore, now I am
going back to tell you 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 in the farm. Today you may find that at that age one is just 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 just 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 a lot and life for young people now is
better, since for a start they don’t start working as young as we did then;
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 youths
were 14 years old, therefore I and a few others were the last youths that
started to work so early in life. For this reason, it is going to be hard to
compare anything, because things have changed, that is if we want to really
compare anything that we do today with those times.
But just to say one
thing or two; can you just imagine a youth today that has just 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 very boring job to say the least. I am pretty sure that today youths would
refuse to do it, just 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 just as hard
and boring, so there is no point in telling them. I believe also that perhaps I
have said enough to give you an idea of what life was like in the farms of
those days.
So, now let me tell
you more about my life.
Dear readers, here
I would have liked to continue telling you my life story, just the way that I
feel I should tell it, but I am having trouble with the computer, since the
computer marks some of my writings as having duplicate content, as if I am
coping the story from somewhere else; but really this is my life story, so I
can tell the story of my life as many times as I want and the way I want to tell
it, just because it is my own life story; some people may think that I might
have copied my life story from somewhere else, but I can assure you that I have
not and if it resembles somebody else story it is just a coincidence. And does
this really matter?
You see, I have
only one life to live and if I want to be true to myself and the rest of the
world I have to tell my life story just the way I have lived it, so there are
no ways that similarities can be completely avoided. So, let me start telling
you, my farm life experience as I lived it, even if today I think that it has
caused me problems again with the hub pages’ computer.
Anyhow in our
future articles that I am going to write, I am also going to show you how I
have made an effort to break away from all those negative and painful things
that were holding me back in the past, just because I did live in the farms
when I was very young, see our hub called, Hello my world. So, see you in our next hub, which is going to be another one of, my
farm life chapter. I hope my life story is interesting enough for you to read.
See you soon.
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