Sometimes in life, you make choices that no one from the outside seems to understand. And in my experience, oftentimes those are the decisions that shape your future in ways you couldn’t have anticipated. Lately this is something I’ve become very aware of -- I think because this is a character trait that I attribute to my father who recently and unexpectedly passed away. It used to make me a little bit crazy, the lack of regard my dad had for how people “normally” did things, but since his death …