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So take a look at yourself now, and back when you joined these forums, or even before. Do you find yourself having similar views and interests? Or are you a wholly different person than you were back then?
Basically that's where I am. Only 26, and I'm still trying to start my career. But at least I made it through University.Bambi wrote:In recent years I've almost come full circle, I tend to be have a pretty positive outlook on things but have learned to be more pragmatic when required.
In terms of my actual life circumstances, I am effectively a 27 year old boy, I'm not married, don't have kids and haven't found a career path yet.
This is definitely the case with me, as well. As Bambi said earlier, I feel like I've come almost full-circle as well. Between 18(a year before I started the dojo) to now, when I am 28, I feel like I've gone through many lifetimes. When I turned 21(the legal drinking age in America), I kind of went crazy for a while with drinking and partying, trying to stay caught up with my friends who were getting into that scene, and I did a lot of things I regret. It didn't last long though, as I got involved with martial arts in order to give myself some discipline. When I hit about 23, I met my wife and, at the same time, got into a full-time job as a computer programmer. I'm not sure which had more of an impact, but I went through a long time where I felt like I couldn't even remember high school or the dojo days, but I'm almost back to where my mind and passtimes have met up with what they were back then, and my stupid days after I turned 21 feel like a distant memory that are as foreign to me as the rest once were.darkly wrote: But yeah other than that I'm different. The past five years alone sometimes feel like a lifetime, I think they may have changed me the most.
I think this is something that really signifies growing up. When you have become where you can recognize things about yourself, but don't allow it to bowl you over or anything.tao wrote: Some turbulence over time have also allowed me to be more aware of my emotions. Not that I've become some crying emotional wreck but in my normal state it's like soft background music now as opposed to silence/quiet. Very strange but also very interesting.