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Who Did I Want To Be When I Grew Up

Blog City – Day 938

Prompt: When you were a kid, who did you most want to be like when you grew up? Was it particular athlete, a television or movie character, a superhero? Maybe even a family member? And in what way(s) did you emulate them?

I will tell you right now my hero was not a woman... there were no strong woman on television when I was a child... and I am a child of the seventies. I was a tomboy. I did like the Six Million Dollar Man.... now stop laughing.... I would mime running like him in slow motion making my friends laugh. There was the Six Million Dollar Woman - Lindsay Wagner, I believe, but I did not relate.... TV was TV, not real, not relevant.

In the real world, my auntie Kay was a favourite that I looked up to.... she was a teacher. She was going places. She had ambition that took her out and away from small town life.

But I think I was just being myself. I liked me... even if my peers didn't get me. Maybe that was the problem. I didn't need them or their pettiness. My family loved me and that's what counted.