Yes. I say yes, it was that good. 'Adult with a capital A', 'The whole family in the car' 'delivering me... home', where his earlier rambling never could. Reminiscing on, perhaps mourning, his carefree and fun younger days, into the ultimate realization of what he has created and become. And finding the new to be better (well, better is implied, but it's there!), his own family. This prose as poetry is French-a-llama good.
that's an interesting point because the ocean line also implies that sense of regret and adventure but in a more poetic and beautiful way (at least in my opinion) but misses the whole family aspect and growth so should we rank lines based on their implications or their execution or is there some weird medium and if their is, is it subjective
i have no idea how, but for the last four years, I have had the tendency of watching old vlogbrothers videos while distracting myself from studying - from school back then to uni now. And I always end up watching this video and being completely blown away by it. i've probably seen it around 50 times. I'm old enough to drive now, I have a car, and my Semesterferien (there is no english equivalent for this beautiful, majestic word) begin next month... I think I need to convince my friends to take a road trip. (If we go west we end up in Amsterdam, which isn't too shabby.) - tl;dr: This video has accompanied me from ages fourteen to almost nineteen and i couldn't be happier about it.
estherrawr Ok, this may seem kinda stalkery but it's also kinda cool that I noticed your name from today's Esther Day video and the fact that I'm rewatching his thoughts from places videos as you were. I just had to say that.
+Spartacus not stalkery at all! i just re-read my comment here and realised that i actually managed to convince my friends to take a road trip - we drove to Brussels a few weeks later!
This comment is two years old, and this is the same exact situation with me. We were then and so are now the same age, and we keep rewatching this same video, and watching old vlogbrothers videos has distracted us from our schoolwork and now university work. DFTBA sister
John Green is a full time novelist. Even his thoughts about road trips (and all other thoughts from places videos) are simply beautiful as prose... If someone compiled all his ramblings and thoughts in these videos into a book, I would buy it.
The last time I watched this video, I was in a very different place. My life was so unstable, and nostalgia was a necessary tool in my arsenal for running away from reality when things were overwhelming. I was profoundly lonely, had only a tenuous connection to who I felt I was as an individual, and the only reason I didn't commit suicide was because my child depended on me. Being a parent wasn't something I enjoyed, it was an obligation that trapped me in an existence that, because of my child, I couldn't change or escape. This video, at the time, felt like a "ha ha look what I have and you don't" and it made me so sad to watch it. Since then, I have started seeing a psychiatrist, I've gotten married to my absolute best friend in the whole world, I've watched my daughter become a strong and kind and confident person, and I live in a house with my family instead of in a roach-infested apartment or a dorm or a room for rent... And this video, just now, became a beautiful reminder of how far I've come in the last few years, and how much I can appreciate about the adventurous route-to-comfort-and-normality I've been taking. Dang.
I love the voice he adopts in these when he gets all serious. You can hear the beauty of his words even if you're not listening to what he's saying. (If that makes any sense)
It's such a shock to see old videos. Sarah is no longer The Yeti, Henry is almost a teenager, and there are no more bunnies in the dooblydoo. It's not even called the dooblydoo anymore! The only constant is change
This has been one of my favorite Vlogbrothers videos for a long time. Before he deleted it, I saw John’s recent TikTok showing Henry and Alice and asking them what they liked about life. Seeing Henry as a fully formed young person instead of a toddler made me remember this video all over again. Though it may not be as outwardly obvious in 10 years of adulthood as it is in childhood, it was a nice reminder that I, too, have grown a lot.
John. This will be clumsily worded. I've been watching Vlogbrothers for a long while, but when I came across this video something changed. This is poetry to me... not even average poetry, but the sort that hoists you out of a dank malaise on dark mornings when nothing else can... I have no idea why, and I have no interest in sorting it out, because I don't need to. This strengthened my heart when you first posted it, and it does now. All I have to say is, very sincerely, thank you.
This was the first Vlogbrothers video that really made me fall in love with nerdfighteria. That Robert Penn Warren quote sealed it for me. I've seen every video at least several times over, and this is still my favorite, favorite vlogbrothers video =)
It is almost 10 years since this came out. I am now the age John was when making this video with a similarly aged child, and man it hits in a VERY REAL WAY
Mr. Green, I want to let you know, I came back to this video because of a sudden invocation of memory. Times have been hard, but this video has a spirit to it that makes me calm when I don't expect it, or feel I deserve to be. Again, thank you.
The thing is, if you're in a bad mood, maybe you're stuck in quarantine because it's summer 2020, if you watch one old vlogbrothers video it'll bring you a little happy nostalgic light. And THEN the real fun begins as you get recommended videos you'd long forgotten so that you can delight in reliving old happinesses for as long as you need. It's a great system, honestly.
"it got darker, snowier, until finally the road delivered us to the one place that all my youthful trips west never could: home." Most beautiful quote. I now have that on my wall.
I have made it all the way to this video on my Nerdfighter Pilgrimage, and I have not yet felt the urge to play a video twice. Upon watching today's video, I spontaneously pressed the replay button and listened to the whole thing again, savoring it. At the very end, I said the word "Home" aloud in perfect tandem with John. It rather reminds me of the first time I read Harry Potter - how I just started over again, which I had never done for any book before, and the mix of nostalgia and enjoyment that came from rereading. John, for continuing to inspire us and for, occasionally, rendering me as incomprehensibly whimsical as you - Thank you, and DFTBA.
For at least 5 years I always find myself watching this video all the time. The ending really is beautiful and one day I'll find a place where I truly will belong.
to this day.... this is my favorite Vlogbrothers video... have re-watched it so many times. Seriously John, if you read this, there is something unique and heart-lifting here.
My favorite video so far-and this is saying too much as the last video i see is my favorite in your channel. But this inspired me so much. I don't get how you can say so many different things and twist them together revealing something magnificent, as it always belonged to each other.
This video has carried me throughout my adolescence. I first watched it when I was 15 and that Robert Penn Warren quote was the first I memorized. I'm twenty 21 now, my first Pizza John shirt came in the mail today and I'm rewatching these old videos to steep my excitement before opening the package. A thousand thank you's for everything these videos have given to me.
I will never forget that Westward quote ever again. I forgot it for sometime, but now that I live in Ohio, and am about to go to university in California, it's time for me to remember it once and for all.
At the risk of being banished from the great country of Nerdfighteria, I must say that, although I like John's books, I find videos like this beautiful in a way that his books just don't match. Don't get me wrong. The complexity of his books is wonderful, but this video was just so moving that I can barely stand it!
So I gre up in Indianapolis and lived the entirety of my youth up until now. This semester marked my freshmen year at Flagler College in the beautiful St. Augustine FL. And while this place is absolute heaven in comparison to the somewhat dreary midwest, there is one thing that this place lacks: home. Unfortunately i can't just hop on a plane and go back home, considering my parents have also made the journey down here and now live in Jacksonville. Despite all of the antastic opportunities that this move has provided for us, it has come at quite a sacrifice. The ending of your video really spoke to me, and i really just wanted to say thank you for all you do.
I love how he talks about his envy toward Robert Penn Warren and then proceeds to blow our minds with HIS stunning sentence construction. Shut your face John.
It might have something to do with my AC being on, but this video makes me want to drive home and make myself hot chocolate and stare into the fire in the fireplace. I can't drive. It's too hot for hot chocolate. We don't have a fireplace. I hope I remember this video come wintertime, when at least the hot chocolate will be possible.
Why do we never get to see "The Yeti"? And for goodness sake, why do you call your wife such a stange name ? I did see the "Katherine" once in a brief shot. Henry is adorable, the best of both parents. Thank you, Green Bros for being there. Don't know if I qualify as a Nerdfighter, being a 72 yr old Nana, but I'd like to be one. I actually bought a pr of 2 D Glasses & am considering becoming a donor for the water project.
Bonnie Howell just go back and watch their old videos, it'll help explain things. They've got playlists for each year on their channel. So John's wife is named Sarah, but she is referred to as the yeti because in '07 when they started up vlogbrothers, she told john she didn't want to be on camera, so john obliged, but noted that their would be brief notices and moments where she would be partially visible, yet never fully seen, and he mentioned how she was like a yeti, and so he's called her that ever since
Your Thoughts from Places are some of my favourite things in the world, and that's a very large list of a lot more things than TH-cam videos. You really have an amazing way with words, on the page and off. This one made me cry. I guess I'm just a sentimental wanderer at heart, though.
Wait. Maybe I'm missing something big but how do you drive to Alaska? Or did he just take a road trip in Alaska.... Or was he looking for Alaska (haha I'm so funny)
John, this video is amazing. There aren't many people who view the world as thoughtfully as you do and are able to express it so beautifully. I am so thankful that you exist here and now because it makes me feel less alone to watch your videos and read your words. It gives me hope and makes me think and even summons an occasional tear. Sometimes I feel as though my real life encounters can never take me where you and Hank take me: a place where I feel at home. So...thank you.
This remains my favorite video ever. I love everything from the suspiciously similar pants to the sleepy puppy, the table-climbing to the deep insight about life. Thank you for making this!
"And as we kept driving North, the whole family in the car together; it got darker, and snowier, until finally the road delivered us to the one place that all my youthful trips West never could. Home. - Is officially one of the sweetest things I've ever heard
This was my first Vlogbrothers video, and I'm still entranced by it to this day. Thanks for making such a poetic and lovely video that's stood the test of time, John! also it's good to see Willy look so happy and healthy here.
John, I'm a recent nerd-fighter and I've just gotta say that after watching a grand total of 10 of your vlogs I'm totally hooked and want to watch them all! This might take a while... I also want to read all your books. :)
This video has had a profound effect on me. Every time I return home from a trip, or even just a walk, or from a rough day at school, I think of returning to home, a place which is so familiar you don't need to remember it anymore, and how no matter where I've been or what I've done, this is the place that holds my heart. DFTBA.
I just discovered that you can look at your old comments on youtube (which is a little unsettling... the internet forgets nothing). It did however tell me that this was the first vlogbrothers video I ever commented on. And wow! That doesnt suprise me at all because it is a wonderful video. One of my all time favourites. Thank you John for these words! Thank you for all the beautiful and interesting thoughts you have made me think over the years. I love this video even more than I did six years ago, I think :)
When I am depressed or unhappy with life, I watch your Thoughts From Places and remember that whatever I am going through, there are much more important things. I can easily and truthfully say that these videos have often saved my life. And for that I thank you. More than you can ever know.
I really enjoy it when John's videos sound like John's books.
"In my younger and more vulnerable years"
Gatsby quote! That was a Gatsby quote!!!
'What I wouldn't give to write sentences like that.' What? That ending was so beautiful! (of this video)
yeah but was it ocean sized empire good
Okay, you're right ;)
Yes. I say yes, it was that good. 'Adult with a capital A', 'The whole family in the car' 'delivering me... home', where his earlier rambling never could. Reminiscing on, perhaps mourning, his carefree and fun younger days, into the ultimate realization of what he has created and become. And finding the new to be better (well, better is implied, but it's there!), his own family. This prose as poetry is French-a-llama good.
that's an interesting point because the ocean line also implies that sense of regret and adventure but in a more poetic and beautiful way (at least in my opinion) but misses the whole family aspect and growth so should we rank lines based on their implications or their execution or is there some weird medium and if their is, is it subjective
I still get shivers when he says "home".
i have no idea how, but for the last four years, I have had the tendency of watching old vlogbrothers videos while distracting myself from studying - from school back then to uni now. And I always end up watching this video and being completely blown away by it. i've probably seen it around 50 times. I'm old enough to drive now, I have a car, and my Semesterferien (there is no english equivalent for this beautiful, majestic word) begin next month... I think I need to convince my friends to take a road trip. (If we go west we end up in Amsterdam, which isn't too shabby.) - tl;dr: This video has accompanied me from ages fourteen to almost nineteen and i couldn't be happier about it.
estherrawr Ok, this may seem kinda stalkery but it's also kinda cool that I noticed your name from today's Esther Day video and the fact that I'm rewatching his thoughts from places videos as you were. I just had to say that.
+Spartacus not stalkery at all! i just re-read my comment here and realised that i actually managed to convince my friends to take a road trip - we drove to Brussels a few weeks later!
+estherrawr es gibt viele deutsche wörter die ein bisschen unübersetzbar sind :D
estherrawr I watch them inattentively while doing my homework too!
This comment is two years old, and this is the same exact situation with me. We were then and so are now the same age, and we keep rewatching this same video, and watching old vlogbrothers videos has distracted us from our schoolwork and now university work. DFTBA sister
John Green is a full time novelist. Even his thoughts about road trips (and all other thoughts from places videos) are simply beautiful as prose... If someone compiled all his ramblings and thoughts in these videos into a book, I would buy it.
That last line was epic
GETxCANDY 'Hank... I'll see you on Friday'
The last time I watched this video, I was in a very different place. My life was so unstable, and nostalgia was a necessary tool in my arsenal for running away from reality when things were overwhelming. I was profoundly lonely, had only a tenuous connection to who I felt I was as an individual, and the only reason I didn't commit suicide was because my child depended on me. Being a parent wasn't something I enjoyed, it was an obligation that trapped me in an existence that, because of my child, I couldn't change or escape.
This video, at the time, felt like a "ha ha look what I have and you don't" and it made me so sad to watch it.
Since then, I have started seeing a psychiatrist, I've gotten married to my absolute best friend in the whole world, I've watched my daughter become a strong and kind and confident person, and I live in a house with my family instead of in a roach-infested apartment or a dorm or a room for rent... And this video, just now, became a beautiful reminder of how far I've come in the last few years, and how much I can appreciate about the adventurous route-to-comfort-and-normality I've been taking.
Dang.
Wow.
You're amazing.
Proud of your journey! Stay well.
I love the voice he adopts in these when he gets all serious. You can hear the beauty of his words even if you're not listening to what he's saying. (If that makes any sense)
Don't worry, it does. ^^
It's truly awesome, in the original definition of that word. That final "home" hits so hard for me for some reason.
It's almost he's speaking the words in reverence
It makes perfect sense!
This video keeps getting better with age.
Also, when the age of one of John's nostalgia-filled videos in-and-of-itself induces nostalgia.
It's such a shock to see old videos. Sarah is no longer The Yeti, Henry is almost a teenager, and there are no more bunnies in the dooblydoo. It's not even called the dooblydoo anymore! The only constant is change
This has been one of my favorite Vlogbrothers videos for a long time. Before he deleted it, I saw John’s recent TikTok showing Henry and Alice and asking them what they liked about life. Seeing Henry as a fully formed young person instead of a toddler made me remember this video all over again. Though it may not be as outwardly obvious in 10 years of adulthood as it is in childhood, it was a nice reminder that I, too, have grown a lot.
John. This will be clumsily worded. I've been watching Vlogbrothers for a long while, but when I came across this video something changed. This is poetry to me... not even average poetry, but the sort that hoists you out of a dank malaise on dark mornings when nothing else can... I have no idea why, and I have no interest in sorting it out, because I don't need to. This strengthened my heart when you first posted it, and it does now. All I have to say is, very sincerely, thank you.
Hours upon hours, have I spent with watching vlogborthers videos... But this is the most beautiful one.
I was having a really bad day and I saw this again and I started crying. This makes me very happy.
Four years later and I'm still coming back to this video when I need to feel calm.
That last line was so poetic, I almost cried while thinking about the road trips I've taken.
Ugh I love vlogbrothers so much. They're so much better than most people.
Holy shit his baby is the cutest
That's probably the deepest conversation while going up 65 that I've ever experienced.
That was beautiful. Thank you John.
This was the first Vlogbrothers video that really made me fall in love with nerdfighteria. That Robert Penn Warren quote sealed it for me. I've seen every video at least several times over, and this is still my favorite, favorite vlogbrothers video =)
John certainly has a way with words.True wisdom :)
I've been watching this video for over a decade, and it still resonates.
It is almost 10 years since this came out. I am now the age John was when making this video with a similarly aged child, and man it hits in a VERY REAL WAY
Anyone else notice the way John talks sounds like the way her writes his books? I love it :)
Mr. Green, I want to let you know, I came back to this video because of a sudden invocation of memory. Times have been hard, but this video has a spirit to it that makes me calm when I don't expect it, or feel I deserve to be. Again, thank you.
The thing is, if you're in a bad mood, maybe you're stuck in quarantine because it's summer 2020, if you watch one old vlogbrothers video it'll bring you a little happy nostalgic light. And THEN the real fun begins as you get recommended videos you'd long forgotten so that you can delight in reliving old happinesses for as long as you need. It's a great system, honestly.
i swear John you could say anything and make it poetic! :) i could listen to you speak all day
"it got darker, snowier, until finally the road delivered us to the one place that all my youthful trips west never could: home." Most beautiful quote. I now have that on my wall.
This is, to this day, still one of my favourite videos on the channel
Deep like a well John. Be on my earphones every day please!
I have made it all the way to this video on my Nerdfighter Pilgrimage, and I have not yet felt the urge to play a video twice. Upon watching today's video, I spontaneously pressed the replay button and listened to the whole thing again, savoring it. At the very end, I said the word "Home" aloud in perfect tandem with John.
It rather reminds me of the first time I read Harry Potter - how I just started over again, which I had never done for any book before, and the mix of nostalgia and enjoyment that came from rereading.
John, for continuing to inspire us and for, occasionally, rendering me as incomprehensibly whimsical as you -
Thank you, and DFTBA.
For at least 5 years I always find myself watching this video all the time. The ending really is beautiful and one day I'll find a place where I truly will belong.
That quote would be so great as the epigraph to the novel I'm writing.
This is most certainly one of my favorite vlogbrothers videos of all time. Thanks John
BEAUTIFUL. Reasonably quickly, listening to this is like listening to John read a classic novel, enchanting language, even before we get to the quote.
Ur voice makes me fall asleep. Not because it boring, but because its so soft and soothing. Is that weird, cause I hope not...
this could deeper and more emotional than I was prepared for at this punt In my day
Came back to say, once again, Mr. Green, how much this video means to me. Thank you sincerely.
to this day.... this is my favorite Vlogbrothers video... have re-watched it so many times. Seriously John, if you read this, there is something unique and heart-lifting here.
I honestly cried at that last line!
My favorite video so far-and this is saying too much as the last video i see is my favorite in your channel. But this inspired me so much. I don't get how you can say so many different things and twist them together revealing something magnificent, as it always belonged to each other.
This is probably my favorite video on TH-cam
Beautifully spoken as always, John. I love these videos.
This video has carried me throughout my adolescence. I first watched it when I was 15 and that Robert Penn Warren quote was the first I memorized. I'm twenty 21 now, my first Pizza John shirt came in the mail today and I'm rewatching these old videos to steep my excitement before opening the package. A thousand thank you's for everything these videos have given to me.
This may just be my favorite Vlogbrothers video :)
John narrates his vlogs as he would a novel.
I love the Gatsby reference :) - "In my younger and more vulnerable years"
This was, like, the most poetic VlogBrother video ever.
"Flee, all is discovered." I'm writing a novel off of that sentence. You have inspired me so much, John. Thank you for getting me into writing.
I will never forget that Westward quote ever again. I forgot it for sometime, but now that I live in Ohio, and am about to go to university in California, it's time for me to remember it once and for all.
I just love this video so much.
At the risk of being banished from the great country of Nerdfighteria, I must say that, although I like John's books, I find videos like this beautiful in a way that his books just don't match. Don't get me wrong. The complexity of his books is wonderful, but this video was just so moving that I can barely stand it!
So I gre up in Indianapolis and lived the entirety of my youth up until now. This semester marked my freshmen year at Flagler College in the beautiful St. Augustine FL. And while this place is absolute heaven in comparison to the somewhat dreary midwest, there is one thing that this place lacks: home. Unfortunately i can't just hop on a plane and go back home, considering my parents have also made the journey down here and now live in Jacksonville. Despite all of the antastic opportunities that this move has provided for us, it has come at quite a sacrifice. The ending of your video really spoke to me, and i really just wanted to say thank you for all you do.
and oh god how i am homesick now
This is my favourite vlogbrothers video. It's so calming.
I love how he talks about his envy toward Robert Penn Warren and then proceeds to blow our minds with HIS stunning sentence construction. Shut your face John.
It might have something to do with my AC being on, but this video makes me want to drive home and make myself hot chocolate and stare into the fire in the fireplace.
I can't drive. It's too hot for hot chocolate. We don't have a fireplace.
I hope I remember this video come wintertime, when at least the hot chocolate will be possible.
Why do we never get to see "The Yeti"? And for goodness sake, why do you call your wife such a stange name ? I did see the "Katherine" once in a brief shot. Henry is adorable, the best of both parents. Thank you, Green Bros for being there. Don't know if I qualify as a Nerdfighter, being a 72 yr old Nana, but
I'd like to be one. I actually bought a pr of 2 D Glasses & am considering becoming a donor for the water project.
You are a Nerdfighter, we all are, no qualification necessary :)
Bonnie Howell just go back and watch their old videos, it'll help explain things. They've got playlists for each year on their channel. So John's wife is named Sarah, but she is referred to as the yeti because in '07 when they started up vlogbrothers, she told john she didn't want to be on camera, so john obliged, but noted that their would be brief notices and moments where she would be partially visible, yet never fully seen, and he mentioned how she was like a yeti, and so he's called her that ever since
Bonnie Howell She didn't want to be shown in videos, so she wasn't. Now she has her own show on youtube (for like the past 2 or 3 years?)
I love the thoughts from places videos, but this one is one of my favorites, and it is indescribably beautiful.
I can't tell you how often I've rewatched this video. It's so....non disposable.
This video.
HENRYYYYY OH MY LORD THAT CHILD IS SO CUTE!!
Traveling west applies to most people, but I live in Alaska, so I can't go much further west.
You could go to Russia. I mean, not ideal, but still technically west.
Japan?
Your Thoughts from Places are some of my favourite things in the world, and that's a very large list of a lot more things than TH-cam videos. You really have an amazing way with words, on the page and off. This one made me cry. I guess I'm just a sentimental wanderer at heart, though.
That last line about being home is awesome! I love it John, keep writing and I'll keep reading and watching.
Wait. Maybe I'm missing something big but how do you drive to Alaska? Or did he just take a road trip in Alaska.... Or was he looking for Alaska (haha I'm so funny)
through Canada...
lovecross countryxc
it used to be called the ALCAN highway (ALaska CANada)
French the lama that was deep
A vlog about life, living, and eventual death...if you want to see that in it.
John, this video is amazing. There aren't many people who view the world as thoughtfully as you do and are able to express it so beautifully. I am so thankful that you exist here and now because it makes me feel less alone to watch your videos and read your words. It gives me hope and makes me think and even summons an occasional tear. Sometimes I feel as though my real life encounters can never take me where you and Hank take me: a place where I feel at home. So...thank you.
I love it when John does thoughts from places videos! Such a soothing voice reading such eloquently structured sentences.
lol, Henry has "the puff".
Can we see Sarah please? or do you already have a video with her?
Go to theartassignment channel
Weren't Ancient Egyptians buried in the west? This quote seriously reminds me of death.
This remains my favorite video ever. I love everything from the suspiciously similar pants to the sleepy puppy, the table-climbing to the deep insight about life. Thank you for making this!
John, I just.... you are amazing. Your thoughts from places videos are so profound. Please never ever stop making them.
Sneaky Gatsby reference.
Will we ever see the yeti???
Watch the art assignment.
Watch the pizza video he made with Hannah
Yeah, watch those.
You can see her picture on Google.....Come on, it's the internet!
I've met both John, the Yeti, and Henry. The Yeti is beautiful. Henry is the most adorable thing I've ever seen.
deep
I love the last few seconds of this video. There is nothing more beautiful than that skyline after hours on the road.
I love watching old Vlogbrothers videos and crying happy and sad tears all over again.
"And as we kept driving North, the whole family in the car together; it got darker, and snowier, until finally the road delivered us to the one place that all my youthful trips West never could. Home. - Is officially one of the sweetest things I've ever heard
John, you've never before packed so much eloquence (or so much baby/puppy cuteness) into 2 minutes and 58 seconds.
This was my first Vlogbrothers video, and I'm still entranced by it to this day. Thanks for making such a poetic and lovely video that's stood the test of time, John!
also it's good to see Willy look so happy and healthy here.
I don't know what it is about this video, but it always makes me want to cry. So beautiful somehow.
This is my single favourite video the vlogbrothers have made. It makes me feel happy
Vlogbrothers videos tend to give my shivers a lot. You guys voices are like magical velvet kittens.
This video is pure poetry.
This is still my favorite vlogbrothers video, it warms my chilly heart.
I always get goosebumps about halfway through thoughts from places videos.
Honestly one of my favorite vlogbrothers' videos. Truly magical.
John, I'm a recent nerd-fighter and I've just gotta say that after watching a grand total of 10 of your vlogs I'm totally hooked and want to watch them all! This might take a while... I also want to read all your books. :)
John, I read All the King's Men about five years ago and that quote has always stuck with me. I'm happy to hear it again.
This video has had a profound effect on me. Every time I return home from a trip, or even just a walk, or from a rough day at school, I think of returning to home, a place which is so familiar you don't need to remember it anymore, and how no matter where I've been or what I've done, this is the place that holds my heart.
DFTBA.
I just discovered that you can look at your old comments on youtube (which is a little unsettling... the internet forgets nothing).
It did however tell me that this was the first vlogbrothers video I ever commented on. And wow! That doesnt suprise me at all because it is a wonderful video. One of my all time favourites. Thank you John for these words! Thank you for all the beautiful and interesting thoughts you have made me think over the years. I love this video even more than I did six years ago, I think :)
Only an author (or a person with a writer in them) could be so beautifully articulate. Brilliant, John!
Awwe... you posted this 7 years ago and I just found it for the first time. Thank you, that was beautiful.
IT HAS BEEN 13 YEARS AND I STILL CRY WHEN HE SAYS "HOME"
This is one of my favorite Vlogbrothers videos of all time
This is easily my favorite vlogbrothers video of all time.
When I am depressed or unhappy with life, I watch your Thoughts From Places and remember that whatever I am going through, there are much more important things. I can easily and truthfully say that these videos have often saved my life. And for that I thank you. More than you can ever know.