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Welcome to out blog, Affordable Rentals
and this post, Talking about my childhood
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Children are the future generation and they are the great hope that any parent have, they want that their children can have a good life, so they dream lots of things that would like their children to be, but there are times that this doesn't happen the way they hope it would and this is what has happened to me.
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Talking about my childhood
Dear readers, in this post we are going to talk about my childhood problems; as we
have already 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.
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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; so we will see you in our next post, where we will be talking about, life means whatever you want it to mean to you.
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This is the kitchen
This is the lounge room 
This is one side of the veranda 
This is the house as seen from the back yard 
