You may be thinking, "so, what... it's just a tractor" right. Yes, it is just a tractor. However, for me it was the last step in me actually realizing my dream of becoming a farmer. Again, why should anyone care?
Well about 32 years ago my JW parents uprooted me from the one place I was ever happen. We lived in an agricultural town in the south where my parents moved in 1972 in order to preach in a seldom worked territory before the world ended in 1975. 1975 came and went and they were stuck in the deep south with nothing so out of sheer depression they had me a few years later.
Strapped for cash and living in poverty for 8 years they decided to move back up north and rip me from my home. I always told them I wanted to be a farmer... they always says you can be anything you want in the new system. This same remark was repeated to me for years. I was even termed being bad because I was trying to find happiness in this system.
I did the bethel and pioneer and elder thing and eventually got fed up and DA'ed. My wife left with me as well as my kids.i felt however that at the age of 35 it was a little late starting an agricultural business especially coming from a background in software development. However, 5 years later I have made it!
I am sure it will be hard, BUT it is rewarding. It is great knowing that first it is never too late to make a change, and second it is great to shut all over the idea that one has to wait for some new system or some other such goofball idea in order to find happiness or dare I say... paradise.
