It's dangerous to be too close to your parents, to be too agreeable. If you're to close to them, you could let something slip, some thing they're not supposed to know, some thing dangerous. They tell you what to do, and say it's for your own good. Maybe that is what they think they are doing but, it's not. What they are doing is trying to change us, reform us into what they think is a perfect person. I can see what my parents' version is, and I hate it. This theoretical person is stuck-up, prejudiced, and closed- minded. But they do not understand this, and think that don't know, can't know, about the things I know all too well. I followed them naively for awhile, but now I am trying to move down the path I choose. My parents' don't think I can choose, that I am not mature enough to know what really is best for me. It hurts not being able to show them how mature I really am, but that would only lead to more trouble and divulged secrets. Well, no one is perfect, and I truly love them both, even if they would never accept the person who I really am. I love them, and I want them to love me, not this perfect little they are trying to create.