Interesting post, at 17 you have only just started the trials and tribulations we know as life. Our lives are not perfectly ordered nor is life fair. We all must learn to live with the hand we are dealt, just make the best of it. Seems to me you are off to a good start, awareness is half the battle. Be patient with your father, he cares, perhaps to much. He will not always be there so appreicate him while you have him. Enjoy the last days of your childhood as they overlap your first days of audulthood. The next few years can be the freest of your life. Open your self to the possibilities and live them with the awareness that they will not last forever. Just remember that you are young, very young with your life ahead of you. Decisions that you make now can resonate through out your life, so while you should enjoy the next few years, do not do any thing to stupid. Remember you are young, very young. Enjoy