While still living under this roof..

If you have ever been a teenager on the brink of adulthood, commonly referred to as the end of your 17th year until you move out of your parents home then you've heard the "not while you're still living under my roof" speech. Whether they are talking about curfew or who and what you choose to spend your time doing, it's all the same in the parental vs. teenager mindset.
There is my point of view in this matter as well. I am one of those that has reached the age where you suddenly become "old" in the eyes of your fellow students yet am still living under the same roof as my parents. Though my parents are not anywhere near the terrors I've heard that parents can be, It is necessary once you reach a certain age to get out. In my experience those that have not broken free of their parents by going to college or going to a far off place, even just to the next city and making a place for themselves have hit a wall in their lives, granted this is not true with every case, but as I said, In my experience. I guess this is what my mind has decided to settle on thinking about this evening. What if I never get out? Not like this is a terrible place to live, but what if I spend the rest of my days in my medium paying job as a C.A. and not progress at all? There is no staying the same, if I'm not moving forward, I'm moving backward. So I'll work on moving forward. My immediate plan is to get out of this states, rip up my roots and run as far as my legs/wheels/wings will carry me. I just want to do something new and see things I've never seen before.
I'd like to go to Rome one day. More than anything I'd like to go to Rome and Venice. Just the thoought of those places gets me all excited, the history, the architecture, the people, the food, all of it is just a terribly exciting prospect in my mind. One day I will go and who knows, I might still be writing on this thing. You may all get to read about it.

If I don't accomplish any of my other dreams I have for this life, I will go to Rome and Venice and live under those roofs for some time.

Goodnight, World.