"Freedom can wait, I'm staying put for my dad"
My parents have given me all the freedom in the world you can think of but I've never for a single second of my life thought of leaving them. It's too late for you to only think of it when something happened. Time to grow up? Bitch please! Time to face reality! Even if nothing goes wrong, we only have that much time with these people so important to us. We only have one chance, because it's one thing we cannot retrieve once it's lost...
Give me a place in Harvard and top it with a President Scholarship, I'll still stay where I am! Some opportunities are hard to come by, but if we aren't cherishing the things we are already having, who are we to chase things we haven't have?