A man life journey
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A man life journey
The art of story telling is one of those things that makes us wonder, how some people can be so good at telling you a story that the listener feels as if they see that event in front of their eyes.
A man life journey
Dear readers, this hub is the continuation of
our last hub called; ‘An old man life story’, but we had to change its name
because every article needs to have a title of its own; having done that now
let me welcome you to this hub called a man life journey; ‘a man life journey’
is going to be the story of my life, so you are all invited to read our
articles as we have said before and you can browse these articles as long as
you like.
We believe that we can tell you a story,
because every one of us has a story to tell, we are not the only one, so we hope
that our life story would be interesting enough for our readers. You see even
very simple stories sometimes could be interesting enough to hear. These are a
couple of links that I found on the Internet to check them out;
You are a storyteller, and
you have a story worth telling. - Get Storied, anyhow let us go on with our own story.
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Here I may have some concerns because, as we
have said already we are writing our own life story, now, because real life
stories are usually boring, we hope that somehow we would be able to interest
you without boring you too much, because I am going to write my own life story
just the way that I have lived it starting from when I was very young.
Therefore I hope that I would be able to write my life story clear enough for
my readers to understand it easily, you see, today there is a great difference
in life style, therefore it would be easy to misunderstand the situation, for
this reason we need a good description that is able to highlight the difference
between how life was then and how life is now; here I should add that this is
very important to note for comparison sake, if one would like to note between
nowadays life style and the old time life style, anyhow let us start telling
you what we are going to tell you in my real life story.
Now this is my life story; so, to keep my
life story in a chronological order somehow I have to start from the time that
I was born, which will be written in this same article here, under the name the
story of my life; but at this point of time, let us talk about how I plan to
write my entire life story; you see, at this point of time I plan to write my
life story in two parts, one part is going to be mainly about my young life in
our family farm in Southern Italy and all those things that were happening in
those times in the farm and also in my native town of Genzano di Lucania, which
is the town where I was born and our farm was, of course I am also going to
tell you the story of my native town, because history is important to know; the
second part is going to be about my life story in Australia, since I migrated
to Australia in my early twenties, and I have lived in Australia ever
since.
This second part of my life story will be
dealing with lots of things and it will include several articles about building
and how DIY brickwork, masonry etc. Since I ended up working in the building
industry in Brisbane Australia, here I will be telling you the great
differences that I found between the old continent and Australia for a start;
and then I will describe how many building things were done in those times when
I came to Australia and perhaps how these things have progressed and how I
progressed and became a bricklayer during the time that I have been working in
Australia, and I have been working as a bricklayer most of my life; and when I
was not bricklaying I was doing some other building work as well.
But now let us go back to the beginning to
tell you my life story.
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Beginning my life story
Anyhow, let us start from the beginning to
tell my life story, so, this is the story of a simple man life journey, and I
would like to point out that this hub is only the beginning of an old man life
story and there will be several hubs about this story; for this reason I am
asking myself which is the best way to write my life story, so that I could
interest you to take a trip in the past with me, in the hope that I would be
able to show you something that would interest you and you would accompany me
happily in my life story journey.
You see, I would like to tell you my own life
story for many reasons; because today I would say that I have reached a certain
age that makes me an old man, so I wonder what could I show to my readers about
my own life story that would make my life story interesting enough to read. Of
course I could tell you easily about what my life is like today, which I can
say that is not that exciting at all, because of some unfortunate happenings
and illness in the family that seems to worry me so much these days; you see,
to tell you the truth I am sorry to say that I happen to live with family
members that are sick and require lots of attention, because this is not what
you readers would like to hear, since telling sad story would only bring
sadness to who hears the story; so, it would be better to go back to tell you
my life story from the beginning just as it happened in the past with some
happy and some not so happy happenings, I suppose it might be better for
everybody, if I tell my life story this way.
Now, even though in my life story I have to
say that I was
struggling most
times during my early life, so, it might not be a very happy story to hear for
entertainment sake, at the same time I hope that my whole life story could or
would be more interesting to hear, if the story that I am going to tell you now
has already happened in the past, because even if there are sad stories being
told, since they are passed already, they would not seem so sad anymore and
they could be compared to today’s living to make the story more interesting.
Therefore, dear readers, while you are
reading my life story try to compare the ways of living of those by gone days
with the ways that we are living our lives today, because this would be one of
the reasons why I am writing my life story; you see today when I see things
done from the younger
generation that do
not agree with my own views, sometimes I would like to tell them the ways that
things were done when I was young, therefore, I would start by saying; when I
was young these things were not done this way and keep telling them what we did
then. I hope you see what I mean. But now, let me start telling you the story
of my life;
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The story
of my life
So, now let me start telling you my life
story, I was born in the late thirties that means that, I was
born before World War 2, 1939- 1945, I was born in a rural town of southern
Italy, as I have already mentioned at the beginning of this article, my family
had a small farm and owned some farm land around the farm, but this farm land
that we owned was not enough to earn a living, so we (my family) would also
work the land of large land owners who would let us use their land for a price
that had to be paid usually with an agreed amount of produce each year, that
was normal practice in those days.
Perhaps I need to write this observation
here, to understand better the situation about us small farmers, one has to
think that in the past the entire countryside would belong to the landlord that
the rulers of the day gave the right to run that part of the country, so even
when I was young some of these way of living existed, the rich land owner that
now replaced the government landlord, would let use their land for a price.
Anyhow talking about the old landlord and the castles that they used to run the
countryside, there is this castle of Monte Serico in our territory and I
remember that from my family farm I could see this castle far away every day of
my life, of course there is also a history about this castle, I have written
that in this hub, The castle of, it has plenty of history of its
own.
In order to understand how things were done
then in the farms, and here I am talking before and also during World war 2, I
need to tell you this; to earn a living in those days was very hard, it was
much harder than today, not only for us farmers who were then thought to be in
a better position of the rest of the town community, because we were producing
something useful for the rest of the community especially in war time when food
was hard to come by, we could always find something to eat from the fields, so
the rest of the town were influenced by us farmers, so if we were doing well
the rest of the town would be doing well too, I believe that here I could add
this to make you see what I mean; in the simple life of those times, the most
important thing was that people would be able to eat wholesome food every day,
if you were able to do that then you were doing well, I hope I have made my
point here.
Now I need to point out that there was no
much money going around in those days and a lot of times we had to exchange
produce or things to make ends meet. So, let me tell you a couple of examples
how things were done in those days; for example if it happened that we needed a
blacksmith to sharpen the tools during the year to work the fields, we would
pay the blacksmith with an agreed amount of wheat, since wheat was our main
crop and also most people needed wheat to make their own bread during the year;
you see in those times, if you had wheat you could take it to the mill to make
flour and then make your own bread; therefore by paying work done by wheat was
convenient, as it was a two ways solution. It also was done like that because
there was no much money around even the barbers used to be paid in wheat or
some other produce from the farmers. Of course there was some money to do other
general smaller services or things, but all those services that would take a
long time usually for years were done by these agreement of so much work in
exchange of so much produce.
I know dear readers that what I have said
might seem ridiculous today, but this is how life was in those old days. So, I
wonder how you the younger generation would feel to live in the old days that I
have described above, and be a farmer’s youth working in the farm from a very
tender age as I did. Here I would like to call on you my readers to compare
what I have said above to today living and let me know if you feel like making
a comment. I just wonder how you would feel like to be in a lonely place as I was,
where there was not a single electronic device to play with or just listen to;
I just wonder how you would feel like and what you would do.
I am saying this because today when I look at
the young people most of them walk about with a mobile talking to their
friends, or listening to music, or doing whatever they can do with their
mobile, the difference in life style is so great that it is hard to believe
that so many electronic devises have come out in the last fifty years or so,
and they have changed our life style and we are better off; therefore I have to
ask myself, what the youths of today could have done in my place? But anyhow
let us continue to tell the story of my life.
Some personal writing concerns
Dear readers, while I am trying to write my
life story, I have become concerned how to set it up properly, because I
believe that I have missed to mention this part of my life; as you might know
most Italians are religious and most of them are Roman Catholic and so was also
my family including myself, so I was born and
baptized in a
Roman Catholic Church just like everybody else in town, and this is how my life
stared. I know that this is only the start of my life that I have told you in
this hub and I have a lot more to say, but unfortunately I am not allowed
because of duplicate content in hub pages, just like what is following here
under, that is why I am concerned.
At this point of time I have become concerned
that I am not going to be able to write my life story the way that I would have
liked to write it, so let me explain the reasons why and the way that I feel.
Now, since this hub is supposed to be mainly about my own life story, I would
have liked to go back to talk about myself and my position in my family and
those things that happen when one is born a just a toddler; but unfortunately
again some of my life stories have been already published in blogger, therefore
I cannot repeat them here because it will become duplicate content. So I say
this to you, if you would like to know what I am talking about, you may have to
read some of my blogs or my websites these are the links, http://menfranco.blogspot.com, http://frankmenchise.com and, http://manneedsgod.blogspot.com,
Of course in this blogs there are many posts
and pages, but what I am talking about here is the post called, My life
struggles, which could be different from our next hub, my life my struggles. You
know I would like to tell you so many things and I will do that when I work out
what I can publish here as I go on writing in Hub Pages. See you soon in, my
life my struggles article.
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