#29 You Can’t Go Home Again

Dear Millennial With Megan Tan

Megan Tan

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The plan is to grow up and chase after your dreams, but what if getting closer to your goals means moving farther from your family?

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0:00.0	On behalf of the Chicago Bayes,
0:03.8	we would like to be the first to welcome you to Columbus.
0:07.2	Or the local time, it's approximately 105.
0:10.6	We land in Columbus, Ohio, my hometown, and I find myself over romanticizing visiting my family.
0:20.0	I imagine us having dinners together, laughing, playing cards, enjoying each other, like the
0:26.7	week will be scenes of all the best moments of my childhood.
0:30.5	Hi. You look good. Yeah, you too. You too. Yeah. You too. Yeah.
0:35.0	You too.
0:37.0	Yeah.
0:38.0	At the airport, my mom greets me. And I'm immediately reminded I haven't been home in a while.
0:45.0	I was trying to remember how long it's been.
0:48.0	It was like...
0:49.0	Yes.
0:50.0	Yeah.
0:51.0	You got your hair done? I thought it cut just yesterday.
0:55.0	Our hair, that's one way to notice how much has changed.
1:00.0	How long do you think it'll take? You need to have a four hour block.
1:07.0	Two days pass and I can feel my mom taking out her mom card.
1:12.0	And this is the only time that you're home
1:15.0	to get your stuff, so I know what to throw away of your stuff,
1:19.0	what to keep.
1:21.0	And...
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