Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Breaking away from my farm life

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Welcome to my blog, Genzano it story
and this post, Breaking away from my farm life.
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Breaking away from my farm life
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Anyhow, the unfair life situation that I have been talking about in my last post slowly came to an end, because everything will come to an end soon or later. For me the only time that I had a real break from farming was when I was called to go in the army, which in Italy was/is 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, and I was then in my early twenties.
Now let me go back to my life in the farm and what it did to me and other youths like me. Because as I have already mentioned several times before, it was not the best life for a young man, since the farm life of those times was not what one would prescribe for a young man like me, if one wanted me as a young man to develop properly, so that, later on in life I could be ready to meet the challenge of life when I would be older, in all sorts of communities and not only in farming.
But you see, at the time when all this happened, no one could have ever thought of the forth coming changing world, and of the difficulties that I and some of the other boys that shared the same fate as me would have to face in later life. Just because the way of life happened to change so much and so fast since I was young.
To understand how unfair it was for me and for those youths of my time who ended up in the farms like myself, I have to convey to you the different set up of this town; the way that people separate each other in classes, not because they like to be different to each other, but because they are different, and therefore they think and talk in different ways, so they group themselves with their equal, because they feel more at ease that way: But in reality they are all equal, as all the groups need each other soon or later.
Now as it happens usually everywhere else in the world in small towns, there are two main groups of people in every community: There are those who live directly from the land, which are called the farmers or rural community, and those who work in town in all sorts of jobs, which would be called just town’s people and they include; shop keepers, craftsmen, clerks, teachers,  doctors, priests, policemen, (carabinieri which are Italian policemen), guardians, and every other sort of jobs that one can think of, in order to run a town properly; and then all the rest of the population, like whole families and women and children, so that a town would be self reliant. So, now let me talk about the town of Genzano and its communities.
So, see you soon when I write another chapter of my farm life. 
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Genzano it story
Breaking away from my farm life
IS TO BE CONTINUED; 
Next time with another chapter of my farm life story. 
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