You think back to your childhood days, before you knew anything about the past or the future, when all you cared about were the simple pleasures of life. You remember how happy you felt just being able to spend time with your father, talking about everything under the sun. He always seemed so relaxed and calm, yet he possessed a deep wisdom and understanding of the world. Whenever things got rough, he would advise you to find a way to laugh about it. "There's nothing so dangerous as a man who takes himself too seriously," he used to say. And although you didn't quite understand his meaning at the time, you did learn to pay