Today is August 6, 2010, and this marks precisely 30 days before my 30th birthday on September 6.

I have decided that I would mark the final month of my 20s by reflecting back on the most influential moments of my life.

Influential Moment #1: Birth/Existence

I was born on September 6, 1980 at the OSU Medical Center-Main Campus in Columbus, Ohio to Monica and Scott. 

This collage contains pictures from my first year of life. Being an infant and all, I don’t really have memories of that first year of my life. Only these pictures. Wanna hear more? Ask my mom, who probably took all of these pictures, and therefore isn’t in most of them. As you can see I was a big, bald-headed, happily confused looking baby, clueless of the journey ahead, but eager enough to get it going. Nothing in my life could have unfolded had my parents not given me life. What’s more influential than that?