Tuesday, June 9, 2015

Life means whatever you want

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Life means whatever you want
The meaning of life is sometimes whatever you want it to mean, because from the life that we have lived, even when it is a boring and hard life, we could always try to find some positive events that could help us see life better that it actually has been for us. So life means to us whatever you want it to mean, it is up to the individual.   


Life means whatever you want
Dear readers, in our previous post we have written about my childhood and other things, including the changes that happen during our lives, so we want to finish this article now with this post. Therefore now, let us look at my life like a philosopher would look at it, so, let us learn whatever we can learn from it, and also let us talk about the hurting part of life in the farms when I was young and the personal consequences that it brought to us young farmer:
Here I need also to explain that while I was editing this hub I have realized that I want to add the following article in this hub, it seems to me that it is the most appropriate place to write this; here I am talking about the hurting part of life that we had to go through in our young life, because it left us in a disadvantaged position, and how all this has affected my entire life.
But first of all let me explain also that life means whatever we want it to mean even when it hurts us, as we always learn something from it, so even if I am going to lament my bad luck here-under, we all should take it as a lesson from life. Here let us be a bit of a philosopher and let us study the fundamental problems of life from our own life.
I need to say that, when one goes through all these hard life experiences in the farm, one knows that it is really hard life farming, but we the farmers of those times kept working in our farms to feed the rest of the community anyhow, and even if we were working our guts out, and while we were doing that we were becoming dull, but we did our part to support the rest of the community anyhow.
Now you mark my words, because what I am writing about here is something old, but for me it is as if it only happened yesterday, so let me say this like in the present tense; at the time when this was happening the rest of the town’s community doesn’t see it that way, and they think that we are stupid people that just work our guts out, because we are dull and don’t know better.
So this attitude of the community hurts every farming hand very much, and most of all the young farm hands and those who would become young farmers later on also, since this are the harsh thanks that we receive from the town’s community for doing what we had to do.
But what’s hurting us the young farmers most of all, it is when the towns people seem to laugh at us because we have become dull compared to themselves; this is the way that we are being treated from the rest of the town’s community and it hurts too much: So we the hurt ones, we feel that we want to shout into their faces that they should be ashamed of themselves because; They have first sacrificed us, as they have put us in a position where we could not improve ourselves, instead of treating us in the same way as they did for themselves, and then they laugh at us because we have become dull. What a shame! Genzano town’s folks, (including also all other towns around) you should be ashamed of yourselves! Because you first sacrifice your own children by sending them to work at a very early age, and then you laugh at their sacrifice, only because through their sacrifice they have become dull. Shame on you Genzano’s folks!
Anyhow, whatever has been, it has been and we can only learn something from it, if we have observed what has happened and learned from it.
What I have written above has been my life and the way that I have lived it up when I was young, and now allow me to say that I have been unlucky to have lived such a hard life when I was young, but at the same time I feel that it is all over and I am lucky now, even if I have different problems. I have to think that way, because that is the only way to find peace within oneself.
I suppose that what I have been saying above seems already out of time, as if it is hundreds of years old, but it is not, because it all happened during my young life, so how are today people going to compare my life story to today’s living is hard to tell, but it would be helpful if they could.
But now let me finish this article by saying that somehow I have written already the story of my life when I was young, but life may mean whatever we want it to mean and we have to do our best to accept whatever we cannot avoid; but, there are a couple more articles that I need to write before I start the second part of my life story after I migrated to Australia. This two article one is about the poor outcome of my psychological love life, due to the facts that I was poorly prepared, and therefore I will lament that, because that has affected me all my life; the second one is about to compare the way of farming and how better off we are today. Then I will have to start my second part of my life story, beginning from when I migrated to Australia and what I did in Australia.
In this second part, I will be speaking from Australia, and therefore I will be telling you to start with about the town that I came from, which I believe that might very well be interesting to know, so that you my readers may understand better what was going on during my entire life. So, after I have written my next two articles, I will start telling you about the town that I come from, Genzano di Lucania, this town is called with this longer name, because there is another Genzano town in Italy and that one is Genzano di Roma. Anyhow let me close this article by saying that next hub will be my psychological hub called, midway love story 
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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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