How I started

To be honest, I don't even know how I started lifting, I was young and foolish, all I wanted was to impress girls, hey hey now! I bet some of you (if not most) started lifting to impress girls.
When I was around 16, life wasn't much of a challenge to me, everything was bland and somewhat easy, but the only problem I had were the girls. There were a few somewhat fit guys in my class which were usually on a pedestal of  admiration from the girls, god and I wanted that feeling too. So I started lifting, I went on with SS and GOMAD and in about 6 months I could bench 190lb, squat 400 and deadlift 410, my legs were pretty strong from the start so that's the only way I can explain my squat and deadlift stats.
I got pretty much what I wanted, girls started paying more attention to me, at parties there was always a pack of them trying to touch my muscles. It was fun for a while, until it got annoying and I had to stop wearing tight shirts and all that type of clothing that makes you look "bigger".
After 1 year of lifting I realized that I couldn't care less about the opposite sex, all I thought about was getting stronger and having a tighter body, it's quite a radical change isn't it? Well, right now lifting has become part of my life, just as somebody wakes up and makes a pot of coffee, I wake up and lift, something in the lines of a daily routine.
It sounds pretty narcissistic doesn't it? Well, why shouldn't it? I gave it my all and now I can admire myself. You can't really say that lifters are narcissists (which they usually are) as everybody else is a narcissist in one way or another, everybody loves themselves just that lifters love what they have achieved.