The speaker reflects on returning to his hometown of St. Louis across different life stages, using Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey to explore how each homecoming reveals personal growth. Dropping his son Holland off for a cross-country meet mirrors his own past experiences, creating benchmarks for measuring change and loss.
Good morning, everyone. Here is your Moment of Yes Weekend Edition. Uh, what is today, the 8th? Uh, Saturday the 8th. Um, was unable to get out yesterday's edition, so here is your weekend edition of the Moment of Yes. Um, as we get ready, just dropped off Holland with his team. We've got about an hour drive for his cross-country match this morning. And, uh, this morning I was thinking about, again, We're sort of back in St. Louis for, um, I don't know, technically if you want to say school was one, a year after marriage was two, um, and then we came back years later for 3 years, that's kind of 3. And then like now we're here, it's kind of 4, right? So that's like lots of like little leave and come back, leave and come back, leave and come back. Um, and then with Florida, right, we went down, left, and we came back, and then we went to IMG, we came back, and then— So these, like, and then there's your home, right? There's always like you, you grow up spot, you leave, you come back. So it got me thinking about the return, just the idea of the return. Now, the return is a big part of the hero's journey from— hello, Finding Joe— Joseph Campbell. Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey, right? If you guys are familiar with The Hero's Journey, the return is actually the last part of closing the circle on the hero's journey, which is you've gone off and you've had this journey, you've learned all these things, and now you return. And the return is kind of like coming full circle. And the cool thing about the return is— I was thinking about, you know, being back in St. Louis again— is you remember where you were kind of mentally or physically or whatever the last time you were here. Or— and then it gives you this perspective to go, oh wow, you know, I was thinking of Holland before I dropped him off. I was like, oh wow, the last time we were in St. Louis, he was this old, and kind of like his personality. And, and you're like, oh, you know, it's just like it, it gives you like these little benchmarks to think about. And so thinking about the return of, of how much goes on in between, right? Like you were here and then we went off and did this stuff and we came back. So you— it's like it gives you a gauge to look at growth and to look at progress and to look at, you know, um, Big one for me was the last time, you know, we were in St. Louis previous. The beginning of that journey was me feeling really, really lost in life. And then you kind of come back. The next time we come back to St. Louis, it's not that I'm not lost in life. I'm always lost in life. But to see how things kind of progressed in some fun and exciting ways. And, um, so the return. Just that idea of the return. So where are you today, right? What, what, what has your most recent return looked like? That's the cool thing about reunions and, you know, like alumni and homecoming and all that different stuff is thinking about the journey and the return. So there you go. A little trip down the return memory lane as we roll into the weekend. That's your moment of yes for today. Have an awesome day, everybody.
