Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Talking about my childhood

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Children have all sorts of dreams that they would like to achieve during their lives, but what happens during their early life may change their dreams and they are forced to live a different life; so in a way we have to accept whatever comes our way, because sometimes we have no power to do anything but accept whatever it comes to us.
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Talking about my childhood

Explanation;
Dear readers let me explain, with this post we are going back to tell you about my life story, you see, I just had to say something about my point of view about what is happening in the world about refugees, I felt that because I have come from Italy where most of these refugees are going, I had to say something about them and now that I have done so, I will continue to talk about my life story; I believe that the last post about my life story was about our life observation and we were going to talk about my childhood, so let us talk about it as if we have never mentioned the refugees problem.
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So, as we have said before this article could have been the beginning of my life story, but now it is in the middle, just because I have not been able to say all this before; therefore now let me go back in time and talk about my early childhood, so that I would be able to write a record of my life; I was born near the end of the year 1938, and that is before the Second World War started. I was the second child in my family, my brother is only thirteen months older than myself, and for my parents my birth was too soon after their first born. They wanted more children of course, but they wanted them to be born a little more far apart; so I was welcome and unwelcome at once, at least this is the way that I have understood it.

I was born a good healthy boy, but in those days medicine was not as advanced as nowadays, so they didn’t immunise children as much as they do today, because of this lack of knowledge I did not receive Whooping Cough immunisation as a child I caught the Whooping Cough, and although I was lucky and survived it, since then I have kept coughing on for the rest of my life, and therefore I have never been able to completely get rid of my coughing problem, because the Whooping Cough most of the time leaves this condition to whoever caches it for the rest of their lives. At least this is how my own mother has explained my coughing condition to me.

Another health scare and a scar happened when I was three or four years old: I was playing with my brother who was older than me by one year, and while we were playing I don’t know why he hit me with a heavy boot in my face; so that, my nose started bleeding, and it bled for a very long time, that even my parents became very worried, they tried everything they knew and somehow they helped me stop the bleeding, but since then my nose has been bleeding very easily. My nose bleeding has been a real problem with me when I was a kid, and even when I was an adult it kept bleeding very easily. But when I was a teenager has been the worst, and my nose used to bleed day after day up to three times a day. Part of my nose bleeding problem could also be attributed to the way of life that I was living in the farm, as in summer times I had to be in the hot sun a lot of times, and the heat expansion would make my nose bleed, and in winter times because I would catch cold in the cold weather my nose would be bleeding also; but part of this nose bleeding could be attributed to the boot in the face that I received from my brother, as I believe that it weakened my blood vessels in my nose.

However the blood loss and a poor diet in the farm made me grow very skinny, so skinny that one could say that I had all the signs of malnutrition, I was so skinny that one could count my bony ribs, and I was also so light that other boys would sometimes make fun of me, when we were playing and they used to lift me up.
I need to say also, that all these hardships and poor health that I have suffered when I was young; they are also due to the greatest drawback of my life, which happened when I was about five years old. Because then Fate struck a heavy blow to my own parents, as my father and three work horses perished from a lightning strike, while they were carrying on a cart one of the last loads of wheat of the season from a far away field.

Death in the family and the greatest drawback of my life
When this great misfortune happened, we were left with no father and with great financial loss. With the death of my father from this most dreadful misfortune everything changed for the worst for us children, therefore, all the good chances that we could have had in our younger life were taken away, and all the dreams that our parents had for us children came to an abrupt end.
So after our father misfortune, our family that consisted then, of my mother and two boys and a girl that is including myself, we were left in a very poor position to prepare for a decent future life.
My mother had to rely on her two younger brothers, who were only still teenagers at that time, and they had to help her to run our small family farm, so that we could earn a living, as in those days there was no help from the government whatsoever, we were on our own.
So when I was about ten years old, because my family could not afford any longer to hire a youth to help in the farm, I was chosen to help in the farm, instead of my brother who was one year older than me, and by right he should have been chosen to help in the farm.
So, I instead of continuing to go to school and get a better education, I had to go to help in our family farm, and this became later on the greatest drawback of my life.

The way of life in the farm was very boring when I was a child, as it had been for centuries before my time. But before my time people didn’t know how to live a better life, so it didn’t matter that much to them at that time, since most of the male farmers then lived in their farms all their lives, and everybody around them would be at the same level of awareness, so, nobody would ever think that life was boring in the farm, as they would happily accept life as it was then, and they didn’t worry if the lot of them were dull people compared to the towns’ people; as it was only because they were less educated and lived a lonely and boring life, but they were happy just the same and some of us would thing that we were better off than the town people, because there was always something to eat in the farm, compared to the towns’ people who sometimes went hungry, when they had no money.
 Anyhow, the way of life that I was living in the farm, which had been all right for my forbears up to the time when I was young, now was becoming old fashioned during my youth, and therefore it was not right any more to live in such a way, because everything was changing quickly. 

So, I have been very unfortunate as a young man, because everything that had been unchanged for centuries started to change, and most of the people that were living in the towns who before depended from the farming sector to earn a living slowly became better off than us in the farms, but before my time these people usually depended from the farmers for a living, and now everything seemed to swing the opposite way in their favour.
Because of the changing way of living and farming, it became very hard for us to live in the farm and earn a living, so in the end I had to leave our small family farm, in order to earn a better living somewhere else. And it was then that I realised that all the work that I had done in the farm and what I had learned in the farm as a youth, and the time that I had spent in the farm had been a complete waste of time. Because I had to start all over again somewhere else, and I would be doing something else completely different in order to earn a better living; but these things happen in life and we have to accept them, as there is no other way out. The only thing we can do is observe and learn from life.
 
Therefore because of the changes of life style, which brought about more hardship than usual to the small farm owners, I was forced to leave my small family farm and the town where I was born, in order to find a better living standard away from home.
So, I migrated to Australia.
I believe that I have said enough in this post because it is becoming too long, so see you in our next post: Life means whatever you want, see you soon.

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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Refugees main reasons

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These refugees have been rescued and taken in one of the Italian ports, where they are waiting for the Italian authorities to take them somewhere else. All these refugees that are coming in, they seem to behave as if the world owes them everything they would like to have, when they have not contributed anything at all to the country that saves them and then is forced to feed them as well.

What are the main reasons?  
In this post we would like to discuss the reasons why there are so many emigrants that leave their homeland and try to emigrate to Europe, at first sight it is not easy to see why they emigrate in such big numbers, but when we think about it we soon become aware that they are not happy where they happen to be; so, let us think about the reasons why these people are not happy and become refugees, if they are not real refugees from a war, or some other catastrophic natural event; this makes me think that the reason why they are not happy in their own country, it is because their country is badly run from governments that have not real powers; here the people themselves are partly to blame, because they have a negative mentality, as they are not looking how to improve the situation for themselves, they rather try to rob each other of those things that are already there, this usually makes everything even worse, because by robbing and killing other people the country itself becomes poorer.
But that is not the only thing, these robberies and killings usually escalate to the point that large gang of thief’s are formed with the mentality of trying to grab things from other people, or control from other people, this way of living may result in internal wars, which in turn will make that country even poorer, and therefore harder to live a normal life and earn a honest living. This vicious circle needs to be stopped in the country where it originated, because that is the only way to stop it affecting its people, and also because this vicious circle of violence and robberies will continue with those people where ever they go, this is what we would like to point out to the world. So, those countries that out of humanitarian pity will take these refugees in, they need to become aware that if these refugees are too many, they might upset to way of living in their own countries; therefore they should be very careful and see what they are doing, because if those emigrant are too many, they would become hard to control, so there is a chance that they will run the receiving country down to the level of their own country.   
We believe that the entire world should be involved in this, because the entire world would be affected by this refugee’s movement; now I suppose we should ask ourselves what could be done to improve the situation. Here is the greatest problem of them all, because it is not easy to change people mentality, but it needs to be done somehow, or all of us will suffer the consequences; it is obvious it is a vicious circle that needs to be stopped and fixed.
A simple man opinion
The world leaders should meet and find a way how to improve the economy of these impoverished countries, and at the same time they should make clear to the people of those countries that they would be better off if they remain in their own native country, perhaps by giving some specific aid to improve their standard of living. At the same time they should also let them know that what they see that glitter in the other countries is not gold.
The reason for doing this is for keeping the stability of all countries involved, because the whole world system could become economically unstable; here I am pretty sure that some people would ask why and how the economic system of those countries that receive the refugees could become unstable; but, as you could imagine there are a few things that need to be considered: 
First of all the receiving country has got to spend so much time and effort when these refugees arrive, then has to feed them and look after them, all these things put together cost a lot of money, so much money that this country does not have; so it will slowly impoverish the receiving country, so their living standard will slowly go down and it will continue to go down if the refuges continue to arrive in large number; in fact it could go down to the same level of the countries that the refugees come from. So the number of incoming refugees should be kept to a very low level whenever possible; this is my first point of view, but there is more that could be said, if we want to look for more things to say.
But I believe that I have said enough, just because this is the view of a simple man and I have said the main problems that I could see coming, if things don’t improve.
See you in our next post, which could be about, our life observation.           

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

Concerned about us all

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Concerned about us all 
These refugee have been rescued and taken to the port of Catania, where they will be assessed from the medical authorities. You can see the medical authorities dressed in protective gear here just in case there are sick people that carry an infectious disease, these days they have to be very careful.
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Concerned about us all 
If we are concerned about what is happening in the world these days, we should really be concerned, because there are a lot of things that are not running the right way; we can hear the politicians talk about many things and getting nowhere in most country of the world, if not all of them. We all believe that we got the right form of government in our own country, and that our government is doing the right things according to our existing rules. But the reality is that there are many rules that although they are right on their own, they become an obstacle when something needs to be done in a different way, because if they are done according to the accepted rules they might create a big problem later on for everybody.
To understand what we are saying is enough to look at the news about what is happening in the world today; there are wars still going on in the world with no end in sight, there are refugees that these wars create, there are also refugees that run from their own countries just because they believe that they would be better off in another country, that seem to be doing better than them from their own point of view. But we believe that all what glitter is not gold, but not only that, these would be refugees don’t seem to understand that they might become a problem to the country they go to; for these reasons the world of today is not very stable and is becoming worse as the time goes on, so we should look at what could be done to improve the situation.
 We have reasons to believe that there are many things that we the people of this world could do to improve the situation, it is all a matter of planning what is the right thing to do in the long run, we are saying here in the long run, because today most things are done on a day to day base, as there are disaccord how to fix things in a more permanent ways. At this very moment while we are wring this article, there is this refugees crises in Europe that really needs to be fixed; but how to go about to do that is hard to say, because here again there are many ways that we could go about to do it. So, let us see first of all this refugee crisis, and then we will comment about it; for the time being we will leave the other concerns behind and we will talk about them in another article. 
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Refugees going to Europe
Dear readers, suddenly this new tragedy of refugees in the Mediterranean Sea has prompted us to go back to tell you about them; you see, it is hard to ignore this event, because of the large number of refugee that have died, the report says that 700 to 900 people have died while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea, from Libya to Italy or perhaps we should say from Africa to Europe.
As you may know, we have already written a few things before in other articles about refugees, and so, we have our own opinion about them, therefore we would like to say what we believe is happening, since we are concerned about these tragic events that have happened in the last few days; but at the same time we are also concerned about to outcome that these refugees may have in the long run, for themselves and for the countries that will take them, willingly or perhaps unwillingly, because they put a strain to the economy of that country.
We believe that not only Europe but the entire world has got to do something about this, because the movement of these would be refugees that sometimes they might not be real refugees, but are just people that are not happy with the way of life that they are living in their own native country, they want to move away from it and go to live somewhere else. They want to do this because, they believe that the problem in their own country is not their fault and they deserve a better life anyhow. So they leave their country in search of this better life that they believe could be achieved somewhere else. But they don’t know the dangers that they will encounter during their journey, and also the strain that they put in the countries that takes them, so they create a problem wherever they go, but let us talk about what could be the reasons for this large number of refugees.
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The outlook is not that good 

As we have said above, this group of people disembarked at the port of Catania are the lucky few saved, because over 700 people have lost their lives according to what is being said. But that is not all, because when we look at the Italian news, or any European news there are more refugees everywhere, the whole scenario is freighting, there are old boats fool of people everywhere, one starts to wonder whether this refugees are going to invade Europe in any way possible, so one starts to wonder why this is happening now, and also what could be done to stop this unwanted emigration happening. 
In our next post we will be talking about this issue again, see you then: 
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Saturday, April 11, 2015

Our life observations

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And this post ‘Our life observations’. 


Just as this photo tells us, life is whatever you want it to be, the best way to go about life is that we need to observe and learn from it, and if something is worrying us, let us try to overcome that by using what we have already learned from our lives observations.
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Simple man life observations
These are my life memories and observations
Dear readers, this time we are not going to talk about what is happening in the world, as we have done in our last two posts, where we have tried to point out the negative effect that the illegal migrant could have on the receiving countries, because that is not our main aim in this blog, as you can easily find that in the news, but we have written our last two post just to let you know how we see the situation from here, now that we have done that, we would like to go back to talk about our own personal life that I have lived in Genzano di Lucania, because that is the town that I came from and lived my younger life, starting from my own life observations. 
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The human eye is one of the best vehicle to observe and learn all those things that happen around us, and together with our other senses would help us learn many new things. We should try to remember what we have seen or heard, as this may be useful one day.  
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 We have to learn from our own life and our observation of life; first of all let us just observe what I am doing just now: Well I am writing my own life observations in this article, we will call this first part, simple man life observations; and then, observe and learn from life, let me talk about my childhood and my childhood pains; one can still learn from the hurting part of life; these are the subject that we would like to talk about, some of these in this post and some in our next post. Here I have to make the following observation, which is that this post or article could have been the beginning of my life story; instead I have moved it towards the end of the first part of my life story, which is the story of my life before I migrated to Australia.
Anyhow, as I said we have to observe and learn, and then when we can try to use our observations to guide us during our life; our observations of life if we remember them well, they would be like our own shadow that follows us everywhere we go and it never fails on a sunny day, so let us all learn from life by observing whatever happens around us. I know that sometimes we might want to forget what has happened to us, because it is painful to recall, but even those painful memories are worth remembering, because they might teach us to avoid them next time. Now let us look at my own life story and observation and perhaps compare them with today’s living.
Looking at the ways that we live today, one could certainly say that living today is not as simple and easy as it used to be, because of the changing ways of living that progress has brought with it, and living one’s own life today is a very complex event that needs to be looked at closely, even if it is just a normal simple life of a simple man like me.
You see, in the old times it was easier, because life usually would follow the same pattern like the generation before us, so everybody would copy the previous generation. But today is different, because things have changed and continue to change, so, we have to change also if we want to succeed in life.
Today when we start thinking about the beginning of our own life in general terms, no one could ever tell and no one could ever even guess what life would or could be bringing to any of us. Of course the best way for any of us is to plan ahead how we would like to live our own life; and here I mean that we should really make up our own mind about what we want to do with our own life, and then try hard to keep to the chosen plan if we can.
But even if one plans well ahead, there are times during our life when one has got to do whatever is most appropriate at that particular time in order to survive and thrive, and be able to earn our own living. Therefore even if we have made up our own mind, and perhaps we have decided that we wants to study, or we wants to learn a trade, or do something special during our own life, it may not happen just the way we have planed it, because life events may override those decisions, so we may end up doing a different job, or being something else other than what we had planned to do in the beginning. But then because these things happen we learn from life what we need to do and we do them since that is the best way to solve the problem. You see, we need to observe and lean, it is necessary to do that even if it is done just to survive those times that we happen to live in.
Observe and learn from life
We should observe life events and learn from them
We have to learn to accept life just the way it comes, because sometimes this is the only thing that we would be able to do, without upsetting ourselves too much; I am saying this because, during my life I have had a few of those life experiences that are not the best; but I could do nothing about it to change the outcome, so I had to accept them and continue to live the best way I could.
Today, I am looking back at my life that I have already lived, and I am thinking that I have already lived the most important part of my life. You see, I happen to be in my sixties while I am writing this page here for the first time; so, I can look back at my life and wonder at the great changes of lifestyles that we have been living in this new present era including my own life. While I am looking at these changes I also wonder at the events that have changed our lifestyle, and also of how it all has been happening and still keeps happening and changing even now while I am writing here this article.
Therefore, right at this very moment I am wondering why I am writing this at all, because writing articles is new to me and so it is still another one of my lifestyle changes, which has been brought about from those changing life events, you see when I was young I could never have guessed that one day I could be writing something and be able to publish it in something called the Internet, and I would be writing in a language that was and is not my native tongue.
All this has happened to me, because there have been lots of changes since I was born, there were life events that have changed my lifestyle during my life, and so they have forced me to change and to adjust with them as required; and it was one of these changes during one stage of my life, when I felt the need to start writing, so that I could fulfil one of my emotional personal needs. And in doing so I have written a few things, which I would very much like to preserve at least for the time being, although sometimes I wonder whether my personal written articles are really worth to be saved.
But here I am talking about my own personal writings, and even if they are worth nothing to the rest of the world, they are my personal writings and my experience of life, and therefore I would like to keep them forever while I am still alive, and perhaps even after I am dead, if they could make sense to anybody, so that, if one day somebody happens to read my personal writings they will be able to understand them. So, now I will try to write them down in a way that people will understand them. So here are my life events and changes, according to the observations of my own life, as it evolved starting from when I was a child, so let me talk about my childhood now and the problems that I went through when I was very young.
I am going to talk about my childhood in my next post as this post is becoming too long, and the readers become tired very easily these day if a post is too long, so, see you in our next post, talking about childhood.

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