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i haven't seen my parents in over a year
it's been 15 months
what are your thoughts on me leaving sad
yeah
excited for you very excited for you we
got to go places i want to go places too
the last time i saw them was a few weeks
before
the pandemic right as i was moving to
france i had
no idea what was to come how difficult
it would be
to be able to cross borders something
that i completely took for granted
this is absurd it's been a wild ride
it's been very difficult to spend so
much time away from
the people that i am closest to in all
of life
in the whole world and i am so excited
to be surprising them now
they have no idea that i'm going
the plan originally was to
go to mom and dad's place tomorrow
evening
at night and i had the silly idea
yesterday to
pretend that i'm going to arrive later
in the week and surprise them tomorrow
then i realized shoot i'm going to be
arriving late it'll be dark
so i'm booking a new flight earlier uh
to be able to
catch them in the middle of the day um
little do they know
that i am actually really excited to
surprise them
we're literally planning out how we're
gonna do this tomorrow
we're gonna time it up so that you're
calling her while i'm
arriving you have a bit of an issue why
butter will know you're
coming before anyone else well that's
part of it though that's part of it
she'll be like why is butter barking you
know and then she looks outside and she
sees me butter by the way is the worst
alert dog like she doesn't know when
people actually come
i could come from the side too i could
sneak
from the side
just knock on the door okay i'm
vaccinated now
so that's taken care of i don't have to
worry about that anymore
thank god so are they i'm extremely
nervous
because this is not something that i
usually do i'm not a good actor
one thing that i really took away from
this last year
is the immense value of the close
relationships that i have there is
absolutely no replacement for them
there's no price it cannot be quantified
they are a huge part of what makes life
worth living i think and so i feel
incredibly lucky
to have this opportunity to reconnect
finally
once again i'm feeling extremely nervous
but i can't wait
i think it's going to be so amazing to
see them to hug them
to see my dog again after so long i had
no idea
what was going to happen when i was
leaving you know and you never really do
right i just can't wait to spend some
time with them
and reconnect finally so
wow i have no idea how they're gonna
react i've never done something like
this before
all right landed in
portland and now i'm only a few minutes
away
so now the tricky part begins is scope
out the situation
see if they're home right now i know my
dad is at least
so we have to see how many cars are in
the garage if you could go really slowly
when you turn up ahead
i'll tell you where to stop um
just to see we'll see what we can spot
so somebody
is in front of the house right now
somebody's maybe dropping something off
or something so we drove right by
i couldn't stop thank you
all right i have all my stuff and
my parents place is down there so i'm
gonna sneak in
okay there's some guest
somebody somebody's visiting so i'm
gonna wait
i've tossed the luggage to the side i'm
gonna leave it for now
it's fine here i'm in the forest my
brother is
intel for me right now he's on the
inside he was texting my dad
to see if they could facetime when he
calls them he's to give me the go ahead
and i'm going to run up and go to the
front door and knock
suspense is killing me i've been here
for
probably close to 10 minutes already oh
this is right over there
so i'm just gonna wait for now until i
get the
green light from my brother
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oh
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wow i originally was going to come
tonight but then i was like
wait let me surprise them i'll pretend
i'm going later then i booked an earlier
flight so was
that a lie the whole thing the whole
year i hated this lie
i was trying to this it got messy okay
it got messy i'm not good at this i
wanted a surprise
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[Laughter]
oh i had the uber guy drive slowly past
and then i
i hadn't dropped me off over there i got
to go grab my stuff all the way down
there unless somebody stole it
okay go go go get it that's the mailbox
so i wanted to make sure
it's over here he left it right there on
the street
i can't believe he did this nate you
leave your there
are you kidding me
all right my parents mother and father
what do you think 15 months crazy right
or like observing each other's faces
to see how it's different assessing
you look grown up really
yes yeah you look like adults
yeah yeah can i just say it is so good
to see you
it is so good thanks same oh my god i'm
going to call you
so i didn't handle things the best
because i had promised to come tonight
and then i pretended to delay
and then you know i bought an earlier
flight today
but you're you're so mad at me or you
were so mad at me that you're still
mixed feelings yes i'm still confused
about i was almost upset like you
canceled the trip
wait but you're here
[Laughter]
no i'm still tripped out you messed with
us psychologically yes
i think the reason is because yeah like
we never do this kind of thing no
and you never lie you never say anything
that is not true
you know there's this incredible article
from the blog wait but why
that a lot of other people have
referenced as well i think it impacted a
lot of people but it's about
how when you move out at 18 or 19 or
whatever age
you have spent the vast majority of the
time that you will spend over the course
of your life
with your parents it really made me
realize that i have to make it count as
much as i can
over these next few years because it's
not something that can be taken for
granted
life goes by quickly we're all getting
older and
it's important to cherish the moments
that we have
it is gorgeous and we have the
waterfalls
all to ourselves yeah nobody's here
nobody's here
it's raining but it's not bold
so it's perfect and i love it it's great
the times that we can spend together
and laugh and cry get mad at each other
make up afterwards you know all of it
wow that looks good
[Laughter]
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he's so loose this is like
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thank you for being the best parents a
kid could ask for
i love you mom and dad
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