I never guessed what programming was like before I started my introductory university course on it. All those years of using computers had never really given me an inkling to try it, but when I did, I really liked it (it was also very frustrating at times).

I guess I'll never be a good, passionate programmer, but it's the only thing that I seem to like that also brings with it a paycheck.

EDIT: I have spoken one language since I was three, two languages since I guess I was 14, but it wasn't until I started learning a third language that I realized that human languages in themselves are pretty interesting, with all their different grammatical constructions and peculiar ways of expressing semantics.