Some people ask why, I ask why not. Life started out in the computer world for me early on with the help of my grandparents. If it wasn't for them, I probably would have never gotten involved in computers at all.
Interestingly enough, I didn't really start programming until I had my first Commodore VIC-20, for those who remember what that thing was. I had the good old cassete tape drive and a stack of magazines with tons of code in them.
Now I am like everyone else, with a PC at hand and tons of compilers at my disposal, it all boils down to syntax, the rest is pretty much the same as far as programming concepts, its what you have to build the programs with that is different.
Most important of all, I am a husband to a beautiful wife and 3 awesome children. Once you have children in your life, your world becomes smaller, and there world becomes larger.