Are you going on a date tonight?” My mother would be there and she wouldn’t really know what my date would be like. They had no idea how different my life is to what I grew up with and as I got older I could see that my friends and family were not really interested in knowing what I do now or how different my life was from them. I started going on dates when I was 18 and then I started going on double dates when I was about 22 and I would talk with my friends or I would listen to their lives and how much was going on, but not as much as I wish I could do now, but still very little compared to what I do now.  I really got into yoga at around 2005 and that was when I started changing and becoming myself and learning who I was and making connections with other yogis and it kind of set me apart. When I started being in the world that I was in I felt like I was kind of different than what my parents had envisioned for me or how I had envisioned for myself. I started to become aware of how different it was from everything I was being exposed to. I just became aware of that, so I think a lot of it is just the fact that my interests started being