Dad..
As we get older, we gain perspective, if we open ourselves up to understanding and knowledge. It doesn’t always come readily or naturally. Of course, one of the primary things you gain perspective about as you age is, well, aging. You grow older and people you know start dying. Friends. Family. Colleagues. Death is the ultimate giver of perspective. You begin to appreciate the richness of the lives that have been voluntarily shared with you, and stop taking them for granted. And you start to understand that despite all of the things our parents might have done wrong by us, they got a lot of things right too. As a child, I spent a lot of time outside, playing in the backyard, or over a friend’s house We were fearless, my friends and I, and roamed seemingly-endless, did well in school education and sports... Who made such things possible — And more importantly, the freedom to explore and be a kid that such things bring (or at least enc...