My fiftieth (50) writing to my grandchildren = Moj pedeseti (50) opis mojim unucima

 

                          My fiftieth (50) writing to my grandchildren.
The title is:
“What gives you peace of mind?”
My dear grandchildren, as in my last 50 descriptions, I will try to give you my opinion. regarding the question “What gives you peace of mind?” I think that we, who are alive today, were all born too late to be able to say, i.e. write, something more than has not been written before. But it is still justified to repeat what was said before, because not everyone heard it yet.Before man was born, he was nothing. He becomes a man when he is born, and every man gets life at birth. So with every man when he was born, his life was born with him. And as every person’s knowledge develops after his birth, so along with this knowledge his faith also develops: faith in God and through God in personal life. If God did not exist, he would have to be invented.

Why?

Because all the universal rules came from God so that today all over the world those rules of God have become earthly laws to which we are subject 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year, 365 days a year, which means since we were born until the day we die. In our life we have developed our ideas in one way or another and through these ideas we have also developed our beliefs. A man without faith would have wisdom that would not make him wise, he would have strength that would not make him strong, he would have freedom that would not make him free.

My dear grandchildren, as I write this, today on St. Stephen’s Day, August 3, 2022, the name day of my son Stjepan, I will be 83 years old in 18 days. I have always lived in faith and with that faith I get up in the morning, do the daily work with that faith, and satisfied with that faith in the evening with folded hands I go to sleep.

“What gives me spiritual peace” is my daily faith. And what is “daily faith”? Faith is born with man, faith develops with man, faith is love every day and not just one day or sometimes. I, your grandfather “Babu” Milan, growing up as a young man always imagined my life full of happiness, full of success, full of pleasure, full of love, full of hope. Of course, I observed the lives of other people around me and I asked myself many times: How could some succeed better and some worse in their lives? I convinced myself that this is normal, because a person has 5 fingers on one hand, none of them are the same, and each one has its own role on that hand. The same can be said about people; some succeed in one way while others fail in another.

Now, my dear grandchildren, what I am going to tell you is more for those who want to live happily, without big worries and big obligations, than for those who want to be rich and be the boss of those who are not as rich as they are. Rich people are rich, which does not mean that they live richly, while those who are not immovable rich, but it can certainly be seen every day and in many places, that they live richer, that they are more satisfied, that they are more happier, that their families are more compact, because they have no problems with ideas of how to become rich, but how to become even more satisfied and happy.

My dear grandchildren, with this, your grandfather “Babu” does not want to tell you that I had no difficulties in my life. Yes, I had them like almost everyone else; but I got over them. I overcame them because I always thought positively and adhered to a Croatian proverb that I heard from my parents and others, which says: Tomorrow will be a better day! And that saying: “Tomorrow will be a better day” inspired me and gave me hope to withstand all trials and all accidents.

And now it’s time to get married. All of us, sooner or later, have gone through that period of life. It is a natural process of our life that we cannot buy in a store. The roots or feelings of this process originate from our heart and from our heart pass to our two eyes. We stare at girls with our eyes, and when our eyes stare at a girl, our eyes send the image of that girl to our heart, and our heart then lets every young man know that that girl is for the young man who stared at ther. Then every person begins to have peace of mind. If his peace of mind is broken by the fact that the man divorced his wife whom his two eyes had found for him, then he cannot blame his two eyes or his heart, but let him blame himself and his corrupt and sick imagination which drew him to evil. And when a man divorces his wife, his peace of mind is disturbed and destroyed. And for such people it could be said that they are angry with themselves until noon and with the whole world from noon on. Of course, there are exceptions for all incidents, including for divorce; but it is certainly the children who are the most dissatisfied and suffer behind every divorce.

I, your grandfather “Babu” Milan, have found my spiritual daily peace of mind since I got married, since I have my children, my grandchildren, my family, and, of course there is no money that could buy my happiness, my joy and my family satisfaction . That’s my fortune! That is my spiritual PEACE!

Your eternal grandfather “Babu” Milan.

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                                                  Prijevod na hrvatski
                                    Moj pedeseti (50) opis mojim unucima.
Naslov je:
“Šta vam daje duhovni mir?”
Dragi moji unuci kao i u zadnjih mojih 50 opisa nastoja ću vama dati moje mišljenje. glede pitanja “Šta vam daje duhovni mir?” Ja mislim da smo se mi, koji smo danas živi svi prekasno rodili da bi smo mogli nešto više reći, tj. napisati nego što se već nije prije napisalo. Ali ipak je opravdano ponavljati što je rečeno prije, jer to svi nisu čuli.Prije nego se je čovjek rodio, nije bio ništa. Postaje čovjekom kad se rodi a svaki čovjek pri rođenju dobiva i život. Dakle uz svakog čovjeka kad se rodi, rodio se je i njegov život s njim. I kako se kod svakog čovjek poslije njegova rođenja razvijaju njegova saznanja, tako se uz ta saznanja razvija i njegova vjera: vjera u Boga a kroz Boga i u osobni život. Kad Boga ne bi bilo trebalo bi Ga izmisliti.

Zašto?

Zato što su sva univerzalna pravila postala od Boga tako da su danas u cijelom svijetu ta Božja pravila postali zemaljski zakoni kojima smo podložni 24 sata na dan, 7 dana u tjednu, 52 tjedna u godini, 365 dana u godini, što znači od kada smo se rodili do dana naše smrti. U našem životu mi smo na jedan ili drugi način razvili naše ideje i kroz te ideje razvili smo i naša vjerovanja. Čovjek bez vjere bi imao mudrost koja ga ne bi činila mudrim, imao bi snagu koja ga ne bi činila jakim, imao bi slobodu koja ga ne bi činila slobodnim.

Dragi moji unuci dok ovo pišem, danas na dan Svetog Stjepana 3 kolovoza 2022., imendan mojeg sina Stjepana, meni će za 18 dana biti 83 godine. Ja sam uvijek živio u vjeri i s tom vjerom sam se dizao ujutro, radio dnevne poslove s tom vjerom, i zadovoljan s tom vjerom navečer sklopljenih ruku išao sam spavati.

“Šta meni daje duhovni mir” je moja dnevna vjera. A šta je “dnevna vjera”? Vjera se rađa sa čovjekom, vjera se razvija sa čovjekom, vjera je svakog dana ljubav a ne samo jedan dan ili kadkada. Ja vaš djed “Babu”  Milan rastući kao mladić uvijek sam u mojoj mašti zamišljao moj život pun sreće, pun uspjeha, pun zadovoljstva, pun ljubavi, pun nade. Naravno da sam promatrao živote i drugih ljudi oko mene i sam sebe sam pitao mnogo puta: Kako da su neki bolje a neki lošije uspijeli u svome životu. I sam sebe sam uvjerio da je to normalno, jer čovjek ima 5 prst u jednoj ruci, niti jedan nije jednak a svaki ima svoju ulogu na toj ruci. Tako se nekako može reći i za ljude; jedni uspiju na jedan način dok drugi ne uspiju na drugi način.

E sada dragi moji unuci što ću vam reći je više za one koji žele živjeti veselo, bez velikih briga i obveza, nego za one koji žele biti bogati i biti gazde onima koji nisu bogati kao oni. Bogati ljudi su bogati što ne znači da bogato živu, dok oni koji nisu nekretninama bogati  ali svakako se to može vidjeti svaki dan i na mnogim mjestima da oni bogatije živu, da su zadovoljniji, da su sretniji, da su obiteljski kompaktniji, jer nemaju problema sa idejama kako postati bogat, nego kako postati još zadovoljniji i sretniji.

Dragi moji unuci s ovim ja vaš djed “Babu” ne želi vam reći da ja nisam imao poteškoća u mojem životu. Jest, imao sam ih kako i skoro svi drugi; ali sam ih prebrodio. Prebrodio sam ih zato što sam uvijek pozitivno mislio i držao se jedne hrvatske poslovice koju sam čuo od mojih roditelja i drugih a koja kaže: Sutra će biti bolji dan! I ta izreka: “Sutra će biti bolji dan” meni je inspirirala i davala mi nadu da izdržim sve iskušnje i sve nezgode.

I sada dolazi vrijeme do ženidbe. Svi smo mi, netko prije netko kasnije prolazili i prošli kroz to razdoblje života. To je prirodni proces našeg života kojeg mi ne možemo kupiti u dućanu. Žile ili osjećaji tog procesa potječu iz našeg srca i iz našeg srca prelaze na naša dva oka. S našim očima mi se zagledamo u djevojke i kada se naše oči zagledaju u jednu djevojku, naše oči sliku te djevojke pošalju našem srcu a naše srce nama, svakom mladiću tada daje do znanja da je ta djevojka za mladića koji se ja zagledao u tu djevojku.Tada svaki čovjek počima imati duhovni mir. Ako mu se je taj duhovni mir slomio s tim što se je razvinčao sa svojom suprugom koju su mu njegova dva oka za njega pronašli, onda on ne može kriviti svoja dva oka niti svoje srce, nego neka krivi sam sebe i svoju pokvarenu i bolesnu maštu koja ga je navukla na zlo. I onog puta kada se čovjek razvinča sa svojom suprugom njegov duhovni mir je poremećen i uništen. I za takve ljude bi se moglo reći da su do podne ljuti na sami sebe a od podne na cijeli svijet. Naravno za sve nesreće ima izuzetaka pa tako i za razvod brakova; ali svakako najviše su djeca nezadovoljna i pate iza svakog razvoda braka.

Ja, vaš djed “Babu” Milan sam našao moj duhovni svakodnevni mir od kada sam se oženio, od kada imam moju djecu, moje unuke, moju obitelj, i nema tog novca kojim bi se mogla kupiti moja sreća, moje veselje i moje obiteljsko zadovoljstvo. To je moje bogatstvo! To je moj duhovni MIR!

Vaš vječiti djed “Babu” Milan.