Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
It is hard to rationalise or explain why you love what you love. But I have always been interested in science and maths, and in high school I was struck that you could use maths to understand nature and science.
In those days I was mortified, because I was a serious actor in my own mind, and then all of a sudden I'm this hunk.