Your dad would have turned eighty today. Conceived unconditioned, once a baby, then a boy, then a young man. Being a man...
You are thinking, that we develop either quickly or slowly, shifting the boundaries between phases. You enlighten me, that he enjoyed life and had a strong feeling for freedom, and now I comment:
"Who hasn't?"
You remember him happy in his own way and yet difficult for many to understand, and you wonder, if it's these many, who complicate things, who don't see these things as they are - maybe don't want to see - and who want to change the happy one.
You must see the world through your eyes and tolerate others seeing through theirs.
You ask, if it will be at the expense of your desire to understand.
Then you shall know, that you're blocking intuition, if you attach to the desire to understand, and if you try to own the answer.