Realizing the love a parent has for their child..

My maine coon kitten, Mr Puppy (aka Mansuela) keeps wanting to go outside and explore. It makes me really sad, because I want him to be happy and he hates it indoors, but on the other hand, I don't want anything to happen to him. I wonder if this is how my parents feel about me going away this summer, or about me going to college in a little over a year; they're afraid to let go, but it's not because they want to hold me back, they just don't want me to get hurt. This is probably the same mentality parents have about dating- they don't want their child to fall in love and get their hearts broken. .... I learned all this from an obese kitten named Mansuela.. wow