Reflection on Turning 20

I’ve entered into my third decade, and while the day itself might not be so momentous, I have a list of things I hope to achieve in the next 10 years, but first I have a lot to look back on from my second, including (in no particular order):
•Finishing middle school
•Buying my first, now-iconic, bowtie
•Getting my first phone
•Working my first job
•Finishing high school
•Starting college/university
•Moving abroad
•Traveling to Scotland, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Germany, Tanzania, Iceland, the Netherlands, Ireland, Israel, Austria, and Slovakia for the first time each.
•Buying my first album
•Studying Spanish, Latin, and German in school, as well as a few others privately
•Writing fiction
•Developing my love of WWI history
•Developing an invented language
•Having my first kiss
•Having a romantic relationship for over a year
•Keeping kosher, loosely
•Reading philosophy and theology
•Arranging some 20 talks for my Jewish Society
•Leading 2 Pesach Seders
•Becoming Orthodox, shomer Shabbos, & now shomer negiah

In my 20’s now, I know in some ways it will be more momentous, and in some ways less but I hope this decade will see me:
•Become a member my synagogue (it happened today!)
•Get my bachelor’s degree
•Be able to order ‘the usual’, somewhere
•Pray 3 times a day, daily
•Get my master’s degree
•Get married
•Get my driver’s license, & use it little
•Take singing lessons
•Take Hebrew lessons
•Start my PhD
•Start my first year-round full-time job
•Start gardening
•Study at a seminary for at least 6 months
•Become a father
•Eat only certified kosher
•Be the head of a research team, if possible
•Be able to start a retirement plan
•Build a home to suit my values, & wherein others want to be