Finding Momentum

Junior year has brought on a whole new wave of respon­si­bil­i­ties and real­iza­tions that you’re only get­ting older. Here are a few of my own:

1. Real­iz­ing that I’m a few years off of the work­ing world.
2. Wit­ness­ing the begin­nings of a soul patch. Boo. Yeah. Hip­ster­hood, here I come.
3. Hold­ing a decent con­ver­sa­tion about politics.
4. Hold­ing a decent con­ver­sa­tion about pol­i­tics at a cock­tail party.
5. Hold­ing a decent con­ver­sa­tion about pol­i­tics at a cock­tail party and wish­ing the hosts would bring out Teddy Gra­hams over the hors de’oeuvres.
6. Clean­ing my apart­ment toi­let with­out flinching.
7. Bud­get­ing.
8. GTD-ing my email inbox.
9. Dis­ci­pling the tight­est bunch of bros.
10. Hav­ing a con­ver­sa­tion about the inner work­ings of the once-mythical Game­Shark, myth­i­cal no more (inno­cence stripped by CS classes).
11. Know­ing friends who are start­ing com­pa­nies and more friends who are doing good in the world.
12. Build­ing solid rela­tion­ships in my small group with mar­ried folks, work­ing folks, fam­ily folks.
13. Get­ting excited about Web devel­op­ment and how it might play into my work in the near future.
14. Work­ing on WeJoinIn with Hsiu-Fan and think­ing about how to take this baby out of the nest and onto the Web.
15. We started high school seven years ago.
16. Being chal­lenged to dream ten years into the future.

Here’s a question:

Were you ever one of those kids who knew exactly what you wanted to be when you grew up? (It doesn’t mat­ter whether you actu­ally fol­lowed through!) Where are you now, and are you happy with it?