Growing up, others girls wanted to dance and help their mums with the cooking. I liked to play soccer with the boys. Or I'd be off on my own, tilting mirrors towards the sun in order to burn armies of ants. That was my idea of fun.
The woman's perspective is like the dark side of the moon: it always exists, but it is never exposed, at least not in my culture.
Even though I pretty much made my own decisions early on, when I was younger I tended to overbook my life.