I must have been 12 or 13 years old, in my first Industrial Arts (shop) class, when I got on to that. I looked in the magazines for things that I could do, packing away every finished project for the day when I would have my own shop. Only 7 years later, I had an appointment to Annapolis, 9 years later, I was married (still am), 11 years later, I finally had my own shop, a bench on the back porch covered with tools.
My wife and I have just been talking about how amazing it is that only 9 years after JFK was shot, we were married- and the thing is, we were engaged for 16 months before that!