If there is any truism in life this is what I have discovered. "either you need to develop useful questions for your life or someone else has to do this for you." Otherwise, you won't survive (or at least you won't survive very well).
For me, learning to ask questions came a lot from retreating into the wilderness to think.
The first conclusion I came to was that Cities make people insane. Why is this?
At best Cities are an art work built by men and women. At worst they are insane asylums that destroy people. Most cities are somewhere in between art works and insane asylums.
Only in nature have I found order and ecology and sanity not in any cities anywhere.
You might find culture in Cities. For example, I was looking at the sword of Charlemagne in a museum in Vienna, Austria the other day while I was there.
He lived: Charlemagne lived from approximately 748 AD to 814 AD. He was born in the year 748 and died on January 28, 814.
So, he started Vienna Basically during the time while he was alive. But, he also did bad things like kill anyone who wasn't a Christian which killed off many people with local pagan belief systems.
However, in some ways too, he was the foundational leader for all Christians in Europe because of what he did too which eventually spread to other places like North and South America and Australia and New Zealand etc.
The point is that I didn't find sanity in cities ever. But, when I moved to Mt. Shasta for the first time in 1976 it began my time stabilizing in my life both as a father and a husband but also as an adult human being. By 1985 I had become a completely different person and more of a Mountain Man and I was happy.
Though I had to leave Mt. Shasta for my children's college future (they have been to college or have degrees now (all 6 of them including step kids and an adopted Daughter) and are all successful in their lives and either married or with a partner full time now.
The point is: "Keep asking the right questions so you and your family can have good lives and survive long on into the future".
By God's Grace
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