20 years ago, when I was 15, there was a local band named “read 1984”. intrigued, I found this copy in a used bookstore and took their advice.
looking back that was probably a pivotal moment for me. really blew my mind.
do you have any events in your life that jump out like this? 
Rene Descartes and Kurt Vonnegut "Welcome to the Monkey House" were big influencers for me in high school.
When I saw my first perl script as a 10 year old lad, made a little change to it, discovered I can control what computers do, felt like a god
I wish I could say the same. When I was 19, I started reading 1984 but then got bored halfway and abandoned it. Didn't think much of it. Some concepts stuck though, like the idea of a telescreen or how language was manipulated, like the famous passage about war is peace, etc
When I was a junior in high school, in the minutes before Physics class, I was talking to my friend Chad. It was 1979, and only a few of us at my school had used a computer and could write programs in BASIC. Chad had even done some paid work, so I really looked up to him. As we were waiting for the bell to ring, he was showing me prophecies in the Old Testament that were fulfilled by Jesus. I saw that there was a coherency in the Bible, even though it had been written by many human authors over the span of centuries. I realized that coherency was evidence of divine authorship of the Bible, so I have spent the rest of my life seeking the God that I got a glimpse of back in high school.
