Re: Be gracious in losing...as well as winning

Posted by wvhogleg on May 17, 2002 at 06:13:23 from (208.169.106.152):

In Reply to: Be gracious in losing...as well as winning posted by Marty Hundley on May 16, 2002 at 14:08:50:

i feel better after reading some of these responses and their relation to a farm life. i'm 32 and grew up on the farm i now live on which has been in the family for about 130 years. in times like this, and sept 11, it makes me glad i live in a rural area. i learned from my dad work ethic, humility, and how to be humble and help other people without asking or expecting anything in return. i now have 3 kids, ages 5 and 3, who i want to have a similar upbringing. these lessons i learned early in life turned out to be some of the most important qualities, even more than formal education, to obtain. i remember as a kid being one of very few who actually had seen a real tractor up close, and who actually got to drive one. now i think that my son will be the only one in perhaps his entire grade who has that opportunity. people do have a different view of death, and view it very matter of fact. however, on a farm i think death is taken maybe two ways. when you see a dead cow/horse/etc. that was walking around the day before, puts the severity of death into perspective, at least it did for me. the finality of death becomes evident at that point, as it does in hunting. in farming you respected life a little more, even though you knew the calfs were raised to be sent to slaughter. there are just so many important lessons for people to learn that can only be gotten from living on a farm, and i can only count myself and my kids lucky that we have had that opportunity since the farm has been handed down over 5 generations now. maybe my ancestors knew the importance of it as well.

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