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Welcome to our blog Menfranco general blog
and this post, my farm life experience
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My farm life experience
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In the farms and in the fields people are forced to live a very lonely life, it might be okay for an old man like the one in the photo, but for a very young man it is a very lonely and perhaps even sad if you have to live there most of your life.
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My farm life
Dear readers, this
article is the continuation of our last post, we have our own destiny, being
part of an old man story’, where I was continuing to tell you about my real-life
story, so, this article is another chapter of my life story and there will be
several more to come later on, as we go on writing them and editing them, therefore,
let us continue to tell you about my life story.
As we all know, our lives sometimes are full
of many surprises, sometimes those surprises may be good and other times they
might not be that good, but we have to live our lives the best way we can
whenever and wherever we happen to live at the time when those life events
happen. What I have just said has made me think something that has taken place
since I was young. So, at this very moment, it has come to my mind some
wonderful machines that the farmers’ have today, so I would like to paste here
a link about the wheat harvester that would have made life a lot easier at
harvest time, if they were available when I was young, I know that our small
farm could not have one, because it would cost too much but we could have hired
one anyhow.
I hope it works for
you to see what I mean. Now we can go back to tell you my life story.
Looking back at my
own life at the time when I was young, I believe that there are times in our
lives when we might not even know whether the way that we are living our lives
is good or bad for us, and we will discover that life value much later in our
lives; because what we have been doing during our early lives may well take us
to a destiny that we had never thought could happen to us, as we have pointed
out in our previous sub-article, perhaps we have our own destiny. Having said
that, now let us talk about our lives that we have lived, and let us see what
we think today about the life that we have already lived; therefore, let me
continue to tell you the story of my life, as I have started telling you in our
previous articles of, an old man life story.
So, dear readers,
as I have said this hub is a continuation of our first farm life experience of,
an old man life story, here we are going to add a few more descriptions about
my farm life when I was a kid, or a very young man. I have to say, that from my
own point of view, there are reasons to believe that once you have read my farm
life story that I am writing here, you are going to agree with me that the way
of life that I had, including some of those other youths, who had to live like
me during those old times in the farms, it was a way of life that to most of us
nowadays may seem archaic, unreal and to say the least unfair, and indeed it
was really unfair to myself and to all those youths that ended up in a similar
position as myself in their small family farms.
But at the time
when this happened it did not seem that bad to us while we were there, because
we were so young when we started to work in the farms, so, we didn’t know and
everybody else thought that this sort of life had been practised from our
forebears for many generations before us, therefore we were not aware then of
the adverse influence that it could and would brink to us in the future, as we
didn’t know then that we were placed in a disadvantaged situation and even our
parents did not see how bad the situation could become to some of us, because
they could not see how fast life was going to change, and even if they did
guess that things were going to change very rapidly, they didn’t know what else
to do, since nobody knew in those times anything else, except that they had to
follow the previous generations. So let us talk about this unfair situation
that we were in at the farms in those old times.
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Farm life unfair situation
The farm life
unfair situation
Now, this situation
that I am talking about here was most unfair to us youths, because it affected
only us in the farms, but not all the young citizens of this somewhat rich
rural town of Genzano di Lucania, because they would be living a better life in
town; (Here rich rural town means only Genzano town, by comparison to other
rural towns of southern Italy that surround it).
So, as it happened
then, we a portion of the young citizen of Genzano became caught in a
disadvantaged position including myself, and this position would affect us very
badly for the rest of our lives; but we didn’t know then that it was going to
be a disadvantaged position for us in the future, and we did not know what else
to do either, and there was nothing that could be done either. The few
exceptions who were not put at a great disadvantaged position were those youths
which their families were rich enough land owners, because it would always be
an advantage for them to stay in the farms and learn their future trade and
then use their farm knowledge in the future to their advantages, in their own
family farms, if they had a large enough farm to run.
But for the rest of
us young men who were working in small farms like myself, and did not own
enough land to secure a good living in the future, what we were doing then
would turn into a disadvantaged position later on, but at the same time we had
no other opportunities in life but to continue the old tradition of farming,
just because this same tradition of farming had been a way of life to the rural
community of this agricultural town for centuries before us, and therefore,
when I was young it was thought to be the only way to earn a living, if you
happened to own any land at all, so we had to be trained to be farmers in order
to look after our own small farm when we would become older, and anyhow, in
those times there was not much else that could be done, but this helping in the
farm and training to be a farmer for us became a great disadvantage, because of
the changes that followed in farming later on. This way of living that I am
talking about here would be better understood, if you read this other article
that we have written in Hub Pages, Farming today compared to the old way, in this hub we are
describing how farming is changed and other ways of life as well.
Anyhow let us go
back to my main story, now to be fair here I may have to add that there were
also a few other youths that their families were so poor that they were also
working in the farm like us by looking after the farm animals and other small
tasks, they had no land at all, so they worked in the farm just to be fed and a
few other things, or a very small pay, if the farmer could afford that.
Anyhow, nobody
could be blamed for putting us youths in such a position, which in the end
would result for us in a disadvantaged position: because the very same way of
life had served the same community of farming well for centuries, and those
people did not feel disadvantaged and were not disadvantaged at all then, just
because in those times, people used to accept life the way it was, as long as
they had enough food on their table every day and perhaps a few other things,
they were happy. But nowadays because of the enormous change of the modern era,
which has brought with it also changes in the value of work that any worker
does, and for this reason we became greatly disadvantaged. But this is not all,
because there are a lot more that can be said, about the way we became and the
ways that we were treated from the rest of the town community. At this point of
time I want to make this observation, which is that we seem to be born with a
sort of destiny, because we are born in certain families, we follow the same path
of our family, so let us talk about my own destiny, in our next post, my harsh
destiny.
See you soon.
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Menfranco general blog,
Menfranco general blog,
My farm life experience
IS TO BE CONTINUED;
Next time with, my harsh destiny
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