Feisty, stubborn and strong willed

I was just called feisty, stubborn and strong willed. I wasn't sure whether to be thankful or pissed as hell. I'm definitely stubborn, I've been stubborn for as long as I can remember. Strong willed is something that I don't think I've ever been called. It's also something that I'm not sure how I feel about being called. It has it's merits I guess, doing something even if it's not the most advised thing sometimes it has amazing results and risks are occasionally great to take. However the majority of the time it's a bluddy horrific thing to do and it bites you on the ass.
Then it comes to feisty, now my interpretation on the word is someone with a bit of bite, not afraid to speak their mind, it can also mean determined or courageous. I again guess that I can be feisty, I'm certainly not afraid to speak my mind (in the correct situations of course, I'm not telling every other person to fuck off). I'm pretty determined but that I'm sure just comes down to being stubborn. I'd never thought of myself as being feisty, sassy yes definitely sassy I'm cheeky as hell but never feisty. The reason I say this is that I'd of never been described as stubborn, strong willed and feisty 6/7 years ago. There are two things that happened to me around that time, I was diagnosed with Psoriatic Arthritis at the age of 16 which turned my world upside down but I also broke up with my kinda long term boyfriend (I say kinda because I was 16/17). He has recently appeared back in my life and maybe that is what is making me question such things but I don't know at what point I started being these things. Did I become feisty because I was heart broken and started having a bit of a bite to me or was it because of my diagnosis. Did I become more stubborn because I had to be to get anything done due to the pain or was it because he hurt me and I became that way to not get hurt again. Did I become strong willed because my trust was broken and I followed peoples advice or was if because I had to take risks every day with even getting out of bed.
I know that I will never be able to pin point when I started becoming these three things but tonight when I couldn't sleep it started to play on my mind, especially as I previously mentioned I am now talking to my ex again.
Edit- I just found this in my drafts, I wrote it a couple of months ago and I'm not sure why I didn't post it so here you have it.