Where do the things you spend your time on come from?

I still love the outdoors, cooking, music and swimming all stuff I did as a kid.

I still read, enjoy board and video games, and listen to music similar (for the most part) to music I liked as a kid.

I still swim, and am striving to be a lifeguard – I started swim classes when I was 6 months old.
I am a huge reader, love animals, etc…from my youngest years.
I listen to the Beatles and Bon Jovi, as my parents played for me when I was a baby, still when I have trouble falling asleep.
I’d say the first half of my life. This might not be what you’re looking for though, since I’m only in 9th grade :P

Mostly I spend my time trying to communicate with people, and share my ideas. I’ve been doing that since I was in high school, I think. Mostly I use a computer to help me analyze data and create presentations that effectively communicate to others. I got my first PC when I was 22 or 23—before IBM ever came out with a pc.

I started playing trumpet when I was 8. I started being a lover when I was 20. I started dancing in college (nothing formal, but a lot of dancing).

As far as I can tell, everything I’m interested in started a long time ago, in the first two decades of my life. I like diving (off a diving board), and I’ve learned some new dives in the past few years, but my interest started when I was a kid. I’ve learned some new skating jumps after the age of 50, but I learned to skate when I was 15. They played “Eleanor RIgby” about ten times an hour.

I love the things I love, and it seems I have loved them since I was a child. How strange. Nothing comes to mind when I try to think of something I wasn’t interested in as a child that I am now interested in.

This is really weird. I’ll be interested in seeing whether others have come to something completely new later in life.

After 20, though there a a few carry-overs, and some rediscoveries.

The #1 thing I do with free time is reading, but I’ve been that way since I was a little kid. In school I used to walk around with my nose in a book and hide a book under the desk and read during class. Now if I start reading a new book, I can’t put it down. I’ll carry it around in my purse and read anywhere- on the train, on vacation, during my break at work, etc. One thing that frustrates me about driving is that I lose all the reading time I had when I took public transit. Then again, I can drive with the windows down and sing in the car now.

Second to reading: sitting around drinking lots of wine and snarking about pop culture. That definitely came from college.