I was taught to always be logical and methodical from an early age by my father

Why?

Because first of all my father was valedictorian of his High School Class so literally the smartest guy in his high school class. Then he was forced to not go to college by his father and forced to learn the electrical trade during the 1930s because he graduated from High School in 1934. However, thinking back on the times having a trade like being an electrician meant he always had his own car, a job, girlfriends then a wife etc. So, in some ways his father was taking care of his sons in that many people didn't have jobs at all and starved to death or worse during the Great Depression. However, people with enough money ALWAYS need their electrical stuff fixed or repaired or their houses built or remodeled so Electricians always had work all through the Great Depression where college educated people often starved to death by the side of a river freezing to death in a tent then.

So, this attention to logic and being reasonable and methodical was the key to my father's and his whole family's survival during the great depression. And so he taught me how to think in this way too from an early age.

He started to debate with me about literally anything and made me defend my positions whatever they were. In this way if I couldn't defend my position it often caused me to change my position when I found I couldn't defend my position about anything. This made me very much of a free thinker and "Captain of my own ship and creator of my own destiny" in many many different ways in life.

Being logical and methodical isn't necessarily fun but often you will find people like this are the ones who literally survive anything.

However, on top of this over time I learned that Kindness and compassion towards oneself and others is the basis of humanity and all civilization. So, though being logical, reasonable and methodical keeps you alive you also need compassion and kindness towards yourself and all others so you don't just off yourself one day.

Luckily, I discovered all this while I was still alive. So, by my 30s I was pretty happily married with a family (at least until my father died when I was 37).

Then I would say I've been happy since I almost died myself in 1998 and 1999 from a heart virus when I was forced to retire at age 50.

So, life is very interesting how it all goes.

by God's Grace