Birthday 18

I decided that being a minor in college is both good and bad.  It is good because you are ahead of most other people there, and people see you as a "smart" person sometimes, which is cool but also annoying since people also try to get homework answers from you and whatnot.
For me, it really bites because of the current situation I am in; having divorced parents who don't really get along and who both want to do stuff for you (but one or the other will get jealous or upset that the other one is doing this stuff for me because they are suspicious of the other's intentions or whatever) really makes life difficult and highly complicated.  I love both of my parents, don't get me wrong, but the situation could be a lot better than it is.
In my case, being a minor doesn't make life very easy because I can be controlled and manipulated a lot easier.  I look forward to my approaching birthday with high hopes and dreams of freedom to live my own life with no one holding things over my head or using me to get back at the other or using me to find out information or whatever else could be going on.

This whole situation made me think of all the other kids and adults out there who are going through or have gone through their parents getting a divorce.  Whether the divorce was civil or not, it seems that most times the kids internalize a lot of the stuff they feel, and they try to pretend that everything is fine, and that they are completely normal.  While there is no real definition of "normal", I find it sad that the normal is becoming divorced and divided families; step-families are becoming more and more common, and more and more kids are getting in trouble because their families are being torn apart, and no one is really helping the kids get through it as much as they should.
I'm sure there are a lot more stories of broken families that are far worse than mine.  I guess I have a lot to be thankful for, but either way, I still can not wait for the freedom that will come with birthday 18.