Online
First time I experienced the Internet, back in the mid 90's - I knew that I needed to learn everything I could about this medium. My mind stopped working for anything else and all studies and professional goals were geared towards satisfying this basic need that had grown in me - to be online. I proudly recollect being thrown out of the uni lab a couple of times for that reason. To my delight things only get better as the years pass and my involvement is to fill in the tiny gaps in online apps that don't seem to be available anywhere else.
Art
Its generally admitted as a good quality to seek the well-being of others. I could've chosen to do charity work, work at the red cross or something similar, but I thought that would be too trivial. For me it's just obvious that those people need help and others are already helping out. More importantly it appears that in today's reality, "normal" people need help but no one cares. It always seemed to me more humane to communicate problems than to try to forget them. My art has that scope, to identify problems and seek solutions for the common soul.
Psychology
I got into psychoanalyzing people while I was growing up because no one was giving me any meaningful answers to my troubling questions. My family always concluded that I just overthink things. So, every new pattern I discovered seemed to be such a breakthrough for me, even if for most people it could be common sense. Of course I ended up going way beyond common sense, seeking the true nature of things and why people are the way they are.
Storytelling
When I was little, they used to tell me that I was like a tape recorder - recording and remembering every little detail. And they were right - I had such an interest to experience life through the eyes of different personalities that I just kept "recording" everything I could. The stories I create now seem really easy - all I need to do is rewind the tape and playback what I recorded all these years.
Humour
I enjoy being around funny people and laugh at other people's jokes. That only emphasizes the contrast with me, as I don't think I'm funny. Most people will vaguely smile on my jokes. Yet, as said, humour is another way of expressing concerning thoughts. And on that level I can work my craft. I get inspired by various surreal environments/situations I came across during my lifetime, and present my stories in the most raw and provoking manner. Obscene humour is my shield from common paranoia and helps me keep my center for inner peace.
Virtuality
The concept of escaping the boundaries of one's physical existence was always appealing to me. I grew up being a big fan of cyberpunk literature and sci-fi movies - I am one of those geeks that was waiting for the leap to virtual reality to happen. My activity in this environment has more of a recreational focus, trying to create experiences that can supplement, fulfill or in some way satisfy the needs of a normal human being living a normal life. I see a virtual world as a natural extension of the real world and in no case a replica or an alternative to living life in the three dimensions.