These things happen.

I like the peculiarity of existence. If previous moments are considered as what have led to the current then everything is far more entertaining.

1990- I tell my mom after my first day of first grade that it was "The greatest day of my life."

1994- Long division finally makes sense.

1995- Have a compelling existential experience which I am incapable of expressing properly until I am in college and have read Sartre.

1997- Almost get in my first fight. I drew on the back of kids neck with a marker.

2000- Write first song about a girl. Cliches read it and tell me it is crap.

2002- Qualify for nationals in Speech and Debate

2003- Finally am able to explain existential experience I had when I was little.

2008- Travel cross-country on a train. Jump on a train to kiss a girl good bye. Perhaps one of the boldest moments of my life.

2010- In a grocery store with a 63 year-old Mexican woman as she compares packages of ground beef while The National is playing on the in store radio.

This seems like a natural progression.