Let's say life is like a rock. They can be smooth or they can be rough and bumpy. So in actual fact my life has had a bit of both indeed, definitely a roller coaster ride. Alas, I haven't always been the strong minded, independent person that I am.

No, I was not born like this. No one is born into a world with a stereotypical nature as one is not born with its own individual characteristics and personality. These are the traits that develop in our lives – as we grow, as we learn and as we face hardships and obstacles that stand in our way. We obtain the way we act from perceiving what people are like around us, hence learning from them and their mistakes. Our mothers and fathers; sisters and brothers; friends and foes.

And that is how I came to be who I am today and where I am today as a result of my parents. Although, I developed their traits in quite a different way - I acted the exact opposite.

They of course wanted me dressed up in pretty little pink dresses with no doubt a bonnet to match, so defiantlyI wore dirty, stained green clothing that went against everything my parents stood for. They wanted to 'shelter' me from the world, so I snuck out to learn earthbending and joined the Earth Rumble becoming the Blind Bandit. I was a different person out there when I faced the other champions. I was not the helpless blind girl my parents claimed me to be.

To be hidden from the world and join my parents at the table with guests where I had to 'be on my best behaviour', use manners and my knife and fork wasn't me. Maybe it was me when I was a small child who could barely walk let alone talk, but in the end it just wasn't me. And maybe that girl is still inside of me, waiting for those special days when I need to ask her for help. And something will click in my mind to get me out of a sticky situation and that advice will come as a result of my parents 'babying' me. But for now she is the shadow of my past.

So to return to the original point I was trying to convey, I turned out as a rebellious, carry-my-own-weight kind of girl that I most certainly wasn't born like. I tend to get called a tom-boy, which I find to be fairly stereotypical, but though I probably am a tom-boy, but I definitely wasn't born this way, I used to be a different girl and some things may still never change, those parts of me that I haven't got the heart to let go of.

I hope it wasn't confusing and I apoligise for the length of it as I didn't want to rave. Some things make sense in my mind but you might all be all like, what on earth was that all about? :) Anyway, I just thought I would post something for Australia Day (I know it's 10pm but we still have 2 hours left). So Happy Australia Day! Aussie, aussie, aussie (feel free to finish the rest :P). Reviews are welcome and appreciated muchly.