I see that you were young when you converted to Buddhism. I think you were nineteen, What prompted you? And from what religious background did you come?
I was raised in a Christian home (protestantic) but when i was around 15 years old i started to question a lot of what the priests was talking about in the church, so i started to dive in to the scriptures and found that many things that the bible talked about the priests did not say anything about, and when i asked for time with the priest i asked him many questions that he could not answer and did not know how to explain to me what different things in the bible meant.
This made me wonder about my faith and it over some time lead to that i started to look in to other religions to see if they could answer my questions. so i read/studied different religions for 5 years and what felt most close to me was buddhism.
Ofcourse i had many long discussions with my parents about the issue of converting to buddhism, but my parents was both supporting me and even they did not agree or understood my need of finding deeper answers they said they was happy if i was happy.
I did lose most of my friends in this time because they did not see any benefit in what i did , but i found that if i was to gain anything from my spiritual path i had to convert.
So when i found a local buddhist temple i spoke with them and explained my situation they started to answer many of my questions. and it lead to the full conversion
and i have not regreated it