When did you do the most growing up?

At 5 years old I left Germany with my Mother and sailed to Africa,to meet a man who married my mother and adopted me.I sat in the corner of a school room for a year and learned English through osmosis,I endured much and grew...........................After high school I was drafted into the army,and taken into the SAS,given an automatic weapon and taught how to kill.......I endured much and grew........................After a year of killing I wanted out and ran away from Zimbabwe to South Africa,there I noticed political up-heavel,apartheit ......I again endured and grew................I left South Africa and sailed to Barcelona,and travelled Europe,learned to speak French and German,worked with rock bands like The Who and Pink Floyd...I grew.....decided to come to the USA and made a home in Laguna Beach,California.....I did my art became creative and dropped out and tuned in..and Grew......My parents died in their 50's,and suddenly I was alone with no brothers or sisters,and the communist government conficated all property and money......I grew....I married and had 2 children...I grew and grew some more......divorced and re-married, grew some more. Moved to Missouri from California and divorced...grew again.....Now I am sitting in the forest by the river looking around....It is Spring and everything is growing......me too......I know that I will never stop this wonderful process of growth....its not only up...its in and out,around and down and back up again,fast and slow....... it never stops...........