An old man life story (page 2)
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life story,
Introduction to: An old man life story
including the duty of any man
When I was a child I remember my grandma telling us some of the same old stories again and again to keep us quiet or singing some lullaby to put us to sleep. In those times there were not many books around to read, and anyhow most of the old people could not read, so they told us the stories that they new.
An old man life story
Introduction to: An old man life story
including the duty of any man.
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.
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 seemed very 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 as 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 would tell 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
Now that I happen to be talking about the
mothers and grandmothers of those times, I would like to add how they worked
hard to keep kids quiet in those times, we will come to talk about my life
story soon, as soon as I finish telling you this old fact of life; because here
I would like 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 very backward countries today one can never know;
I can just 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 harder
than today for young mothers as you can see for yourself, they had to rely or
their skills that they had picked up from their elders.
Today 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, and for this reason you cannot hear
any mother singing their lullaby to their child in any town, I guess that even
in the country outside towns they don’t sing anymore, 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 as long as 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.
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My life story
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; today I have forgotten most of these
stories, therefore I am not able to tell you any of them. But anyhow this is
not the real reason why I am writing this article; because what I would like to
write here is this; I am going to tell you the story of my life. I know that
now you are thinking, what is wrong with me why should I tell you the story of
my whole life? Well it is just because I cannot tell you a fairy tale, because
today people don’t believe anymore in fairies or fairy tales, and really, I
don’t remember most of the tales that I have been told when I was young, so I
could not tell you much of a story; therefore 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 whole
life story, starting with this hub called, (An old man life story), which
is going to be also the name of my story writings, I have also to say that
there are other issues that have prompt to write my life story, the main issues
are written hereunder.
Firstly, I would like to tell you dear
readers that I would like to use this story of my life, in order to compare the ways of
living between these days and the old time ways; since I believe that in order
to tell a story and make sense to the listener or readers there should also be
a purpose for it, so, if we try to compare this old life story to today ways of
living, then it may make this story 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, generally
speaking in the old days normally time seemed to stand still and very little
changes would happen, and if anything did happen it would happen very slowly,
except when there were wars or some 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 could be said that 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 about why I
feel that I have to write this story, and why I believe I have to write it. You
see, I feel that every human being has a story to tell, and anyone of us could
tell our own story if we attach enough importance to the story that we want to
tell. So, to me it happens that I believe that by telling 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 here under.
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The Duty of any Man
There are reasons to believe that in order
for mankind to 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, if he wants to be counted as a good hardworking man.
So, let us start from the beginning of our
lives and use first of all 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 and would be achieved through and from their parents, who would be
guided from their natural instinct to do what they have to do to bring on a new
life, as we all know this is the only way for life to reproduce itself and
continue indefinitely.
For life to evolve and become better, it is important that we all do our best, so we should be very 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 very careful with it and we should endeavour to guard our lives dearly during our own lives, with all our inner will and physical strength, because our lives is a very special gift that we have received from God.
For life to evolve and become better, it is important that we all do our best, so we should be very 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 very careful with it and we should endeavour to guard our lives dearly during our own lives, with all our inner will and physical strength, because our lives is a very special gift that we have received from God.
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 as well as he could, 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 from them. Now if there are any improvement that he has made during
his life, they should be passed onto his children, so that 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 man come forward and
say what he has to say about his beliefs or improvements that he could
contribute to humanity.
Now that I have described above what I think
the life duty of any man could or would be, and of course believing every word
that I have said above, there could be no way that I could or would avoid to do
my duty for the improvement of future generations. Of course by doing my duty
as we have said above, not only I have achieved something good for the
community at large, and 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 humanity and the future
generations. For this reason I believe that our life learning should be passed
on whenever possible, by using whatever is available to achieve that.
Our life learning should be passed on
Therefore our duty as human beings is that we
have to pass on what we have learned from life, for the betterment of future
generations; now that I have said what the life duty of any man is, I have to
start thinking what I could and should do to contribute to it; in order to
achieve our own goal and do our own duty as a man and contribute our share, so
that, we could 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 overall, and then perhaps we should try to see which way they could
be used better.
In my case I believe that one of the best ways to achieve that is that I could write my own life story, in my life story I would try 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 would be passing on my knowledge for the benefit of future generations. You see, this is just another reason for writing, an old man life story as I intend to do already and then publish it in Hub Pages, I need also to write most of my life observation down and any other life experiences in such a way that they could be understood and would make sense to whosoever might read them.
In my case I believe that one of the best ways to achieve that is that I could write my own life story, in my life story I would try 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 would be passing on my knowledge for the benefit of future generations. You see, this is just another reason for writing, an old man life story as I intend to do already and then publish it in Hub Pages, I need also to write most of my life observation down and any other life experiences in such a way that they could be understood and would make sense to whosoever might read them.
In my life story I know already that some of
my life happenings and observation would or could be felt a bit strange
sometimes, especially those observations that have something to do with my
psychological way of imaginary love life and other things of that nature,
therefore I am warning my readers not to give too much weight to those
observation whenever they come across and read them, 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 those psychological things in a different way. I
know also that some of my other life experiences and my life observations that
I am going to write here or later on might seem a bit strange to some reader;
but what can I do if life sometimes is a bit strange? I can do nothing about
it, except to tell you the way it is and the way that I see it.
Anyhow, if I have to do my duty in order to
improve what I have received from life, I am going to tell you my own
life experiences to start
with, even if they are going to be boring and seem strange at times, as I am
sure that they are going to seem strange every now and then, 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 going and wanting to do it anyhow; so
may God help me achieve that!
Anyhow now, let us go back to my resolve that
I am/was going to write in my hub about, An old man life story, but then, at
the same time I think that I might have said enough in this hub and therefore I
will be starting to tell my story of an old man life story in my next hub that
perhaps I could call, A man life journey, just because I need to give every hub
a new name. See you soon my dear readers in my next article of my life story.
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