English – This is my fifth (5) writing which has 7 questions in summary. = Hrvatski – Ovo je moje peto (5) pisanje koje ima 7 pitanja u sažetku. 

                              The question in English was:
“What does love mean to you? Chance, Accident, Hazard, Incident case, Opportunity, Adventure, etc”?

 The first question is:

(1) What does love mean to you?
For me, love is a great force and I see it in such a way that even on a dry tree it would take root and spread the meaning of love. And just as nations feed themselves with the fruits of a tree, so these same nations feed themselves with love, which is the most beautiful flower in the world. If that living love, which is a firm and unbreakable force in us, disappeared, then that love would be like a tree with its roots cut off. That’s why all of us, from Adam and Eve, carry within us that love that we selflessly call “Mother’s love” or “Parental love”. From that “Mother’s or Parental Love” all our loves developed according to the direction that almost all of us chose and choose for ourselves, be they good or bad, be they are evil or not. And as the Old and New Testaments teach us, if there was no parental love from Adam and Eve, I am afraid to say that there would be no human life on this planet today. For me, love is worship, love is affection, love is the root of our life, love is our flame, love is the light of our life. Amen!

(2) Happiness:
We were all born naked and barefoot, without luck and without knowledge. As we grew up and began to think, we went to school to learn how to read and write, where we more or less learned that no happiness can be bought in a store. We also learned that anyone who thinks too much about their happiness can become selfish and as such one day become unhappy. It could be said that we also learned through school that children are happy because they don’t think much about happiness, while adults are often unhappy because they think too much that they are not happy. The truth is divided into happiness and unhappiness, just as it is also true that the happiest are those who know how to appreciate other people’s merits and who rejoice as much in other people’s happiness as in their own. It is a great sign of satisfaction and selflessness, and any selfishness can be counted as a Deadly Sin from one side or the other. Amen!

(3) Unhappiness, bereavement or grief, however,
All of us inhabitants of this planet are people of virtue: happiness, courage, enjoyment, suffering, grief and above all love for life. From this love for life we have developed the depth of all our desires for enjoyment. Since time immemorial, it has been the wish of every individual to create his own family. I am speaking here in general, because throughout human history there have been countless cases where it was not possible to create a family. I cannot give an answer here except to say that these are cases to which no answer can be given. Perhaps it falls into the category of lamentation that shows more weakness of spirit than the true value of pain or sorrow. That’s why to understand these people who belong to the category of grief and mourning, all the same, the one who shed a tear for someone while he was crying through grief and sorrow deserves more recognition and praise, than the one who stood aside and selfishly enjoyed the pain of the bereaved and sad sufferer. . Amen!

(4) Fate,
A man paves his own way just as a waterworks paves its own way. That’s how it’s always been and that’s how it will always be. That’s how history teaches us in various ways, and through that education we create a destiny or destinies for ourselves that are often neither official nor true. And that’s why it could be said that not all fools are those who don’t believe in fictional stories, as much as those who believe that everything they read is true. That is why throughout the history of the inhabitants of our planet there have always been those who have gone through good and bad destinies. That’s why even today, as I write this on January 31, 2024, we live for the destiny we seek for ourselves. In order to be able to have our own and great destiny, we need to get out of the darkness and better see which direction to go in order to reach the destiny we need. Amen!

(5) Event
Man creates and achieves events through work. All people who create something are workers. My father Petar Boban from the village of Bobanova Draga often used to tell me: My son, only lazy people have nothing to do, and hard workers always have something to do. The main thing is that we always work, and our work gives us a means of living, and work gives us one great value. Amen!

(6) Good luck,
Pretty is a beauty that we could say we love. Why is beauty or beauty so attractive to us? Why do we feel that way? We feel this way because we are human and because we are unable to escape from this world in which we live. A human being can also be said to be handsome and beautiful. That is why it is said that a man is not beautiful because he is beautiful, but is beautiful because he is a great man. Amen!

(7) Adventure.
Every human life is a kind of adventure. What is the meaning of our life? To know the answer to this question is to be religious. Does that question even make sense? I answer: whoever feels his own life and the life of his neighbors as meaningless is not only unhappy, but is hardly capable of living. Amen!

My dear grandchildren, this is for you and all your friends.
Your eternel grandfather “Babu” Mile Boban.

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                                      Pitanje na engleskom bilo je:
“Što za tebe znači ljubav? Slučaj, nesreća, opasnost, nezgoda, prilika, avantura itd.”?

Prvo pitanje je:

(1) Što za tebe znači ljubav?
Za mene je ljubav velika sila i vidim je tako da bi se i na suhom stablu ukorijenila i širila smisao ljubavi. I kao što se narodi hrane plodovima drveta, tako se ti isti narodi hrane ljubavlju, koja je najljepši cvijet na svijetu. Kad bi nestalo one žive ljubavi, koja je u nama čvrsta i nesalomljiva sila, tad bi ta ljubav bila kao stablo s odsječenim korijenjem. Zato svi mi, od Adama i Eve, u sebi nosimo onu ljubav koju nesebično nazivamo „Majčinska ljubav“ ili „Roditeljska ljubav“. Iz te „majčinske ili roditeljske ljubavi“ razvile su se sve naše ljubavi prema smjeru koji smo gotovo svi za sebe birali i biramo, bile one dobre ili loše, bile one zle ili ne. I kako nas Stari i Novi zavjet uče, da nije bilo roditeljske ljubavi Adama i Eve, bojim se reći da danas ne bi bilo ljudskog života na ovoj planeti. Za mene je ljubav štovanje, ljubav je naklonost, ljubav je korijen našeg života, ljubav je naš plamen, ljubav je svjetlo našeg života. Amen!

(2) Sreća:
Svi smo rođeni goli i bosi, bez sreće i bez znanja. Kako smo odrasli i razmišljali, tako smo išli u školu da učimo čitati i pisati, gdje smo manje-više naučili da se sreća ne može kupiti u trgovini. Također smo naučili da svatko tko previše razmišlja o svojoj sreći može postati sebičan i kao takav jednog dana postati nesretan. Moglo bi se reći da smo i kroz školu naučili da su djeca sretna jer ne razmišljaju puno o sreći, dok su odrasli često nesretni jer previše misle da nisu sretni. Istina se dijeli na sreću i nesreću, kao što je istina i da su najsretniji oni koji znaju cijeniti tuđe zasluge i koji se tuđoj sreći raduju koliko i svojoj. To je veliki znak zadovoljstva i nesebičnosti, a svaka sebičnost se s jedne ili s druge strane može ubrojiti u smrtni grijeh. Amen!

(3) Nesreća, žalost ili tuga, međutim,
Svi mi stanovnici ove planete smo ljudi vrlina: sreće, hrabrosti, uživanja, patnje, tuge i iznad svega ljubavi prema životu. Iz te ljubavi prema životu razvili smo dubinu svih naših želja za uživanjem. Od pamtivijeka je želja svakog pojedinca stvoriti vlastitu obitelj. Ovdje govorim općenito, jer kroz ljudsku povijest bilo je bezbroj slučajeva da nije bilo moguće stvoriti obitelj. Ovdje ne mogu dati odgovor osim da kažem da su to slučajevi na koje se ne može odgovoriti. Možda to spada u kategoriju jadikovki koje više pokazuju slabost duha nego pravu vrijednost boli ili tuge. Zato za razumijevanje ovih ljudi koji spadaju u kategoriju žalosti i žalosti, ipak, više priznanja i pohvale zaslužuje onaj koji je pustio suzu za nekim dok je plakao od tuge i tuge, nego onaj koji je stajao po strani i sebično uživao u boli ožalošćenog i tužnog patnika. . Amen!

(4) Sudbina,
Čovjek sam sebi krči put kao što vodovod krči svoj put. Tako je uvijek bilo i tako će uvijek biti. Tako nas povijest uči na razne načine, a tim obrazovanjem sami sebi stvaramo sudbinu ili sudbine koje često nisu ni službene ni istinite. I zato bi se moglo reći da nisu sve budale oni koji ne vjeruju u izmišljene priče, koliko oni koji vjeruju da je sve što pročitaju istina. Zato je kroz povijest stanovnika našeg planeta uvijek bilo onih koji su prošli kroz dobre i loše sudbine. Zato i danas, dok ovo pišem 31. siječnja 2024., živimo za sudbinu koju tražimo za sebe. Da bismo mogli imati svoju i veliku sudbinu, moramo izaći iz mraka i bolje sagledati u kojem smjeru ići da bismo stigli do sudbine koja nam je potrebna. Amen!

(5) Događaj
Čovjek radom stvara i ostvaruje događaje. Svi ljudi koji nešto stvaraju su radnici. Moj otac Petar Boban iz sela Bobanova Draga često mi je znao reći: Sine moj, samo lijenčine nemaju što raditi, a vrijedni radnik uvijek ima što raditi. Glavno je da uvijek radimo, a naš rad nam daje sredstva za život, a rad nam daje jednu veliku vrijednost. Amen!

(6) Sretno,
Ljepota je ljepota za koju bismo mogli reći da je volimo. Zašto nam je ljepota toliko privlačna? Zašto se tako osjećamo? Osjećamo se tako jer smo ljudi i jer ne možemo pobjeći iz ovog svijeta u kojem živimo. Za ljudsko biće se također može reći da je zgodno i lijepo. Zato se kaže da čovjek nije lijep zato što je lijep, nego je lijep zato što je dobar čovjek. Amen!

(7) Avantura.
Svaki ljudski život je svojevrsna aventura. Koji je smisao našeg života? Znati odgovor na ovo pitanje znači biti religiozan. Ima li to pitanje uopće smisla? Odgovaram: tko svoj život i život svojih bližnjih osjeća besmislenim, ne samo da je nesretan, nego je i teško nesposoban za život. Amen!

Dragi moji unuci, ovo je za vas i sve vaše prijatelje.
Vaš vječiti djed “Babu” Mile Boban.