NY Times (followup)

I subscribed to the New York Times shortly after mentioning it in the blog. It was awesome. I recommend anybody try it. I kept up with the world for about 8 weeks. Read it every day, and ever purchased the occasional $4 sunday paper extravaganza (it'll take you the whole day, try it sometime). I kinda got off the habit when the end of the semester happened. And expecially now that I'm broke (come on summer work!) I had to end our relationship. We experienced highs and lows together. It was a spring fling. It just wasnt meant to last. In some future time and space, we will meet, and perhaps dare to dance again.

Three Questions I Fear

In simplest terms:
1. Where have you been?
2. Where are you now?
3. Where are you going?

I never seem to have a good answer. I usually just take a deep, deep breath and start the uncomfortable verbage. I even avoid some social gatherings because of a deep fear of feeling forced to answer these questions all night.
The problem is, theres no simple answer. All throughout school, we've been tought to summarize and condense our responses into concise, neat little cubelike answer-packages. Verbose essay responses are graded as 'fuzzy' or 'unclear'. But summing up any of these answers into a complete sentence or less will not satisfy the question. I'm terrified to talk about myself, so lets talk about you.