I’ve always considered myself a thinking man by nature. Even from childhood, I always had to know how everything worked. Picture my mother’s face when she walked in my room, and I had my toy talking teddy bear gutted open like a deer, trying to figure out how in the world this thing was speaking to me. Even today, all these years later, I still often find myself pondering life’s questions and trying to come up with an answer as to why certain th…