My iPod just switched tracks to "What's my age again?" by Blink 182. Weird how you remember the first time you heard that song. I was, for a moment, transported back to my early teens - 7th grade - where I wore the same pair of jeans for months, was influenced by everything cool, did outrageously rebellious things just to see how it felt. I remember not wanting to care about stuff, then actually it started to not care about stuff at all. Things didn't worry me as they might have done earlier. Besides the jeans, I remember wearing dreadful clothes almost like a drunken rockstar. You'd have thought I'd start playing the guitar back then when it was probably the coolest time to do so. Never happened, we were into Discos or "Raves". I was nobody essentially but like everyone, you think you're someone within your group. And that's another thing, you had a group...

Funny really how that happens. Sometimes i look back and think how much of my upbringing upbringing. I think liked growing - I only say that because I think that as I kid growing up, I was never affected by most things. I was left alone, also through high school maybe that's because I did Judo and rugby later in high school. Dunno. well I never pee-ed anyone off so that I suppose helps mostly.

Thinking I wasn't was weird as I could have been. I've successfully made up for that in later life - I joke.

And, if the track changes to "Nickleback" and I'm in boarding school, 10th grade. And if I had to hear "Lady Gaga" I'd be in present day London 2011.

All this, now I'm remembering while traveling underground from my apartment to the city Centre and really, it's humbling to know who you are, now who you were then and trying to see how much you've learnt about yourself in between - more than just remembering your youth but understanding where in the world your life is and trying to wonder where you want it to be.

humbling. But pretty cool. I love living.