A recent article in The Guardian spelling out the importance of play in boosting healthy child development made me contemplate my own experiences of play. Even as a teenager, I still consider play a prized part of my life. The very idea of playing cards with my family at the weekend or football with my brothers at the park can itself be a comforting thought to lean on during times of stress, one that proves all the more rewarding when it turns out to be reality. Like most others, my childhood days were not spent musing over play because there was no need; to echo healer and author Vince Gow...