You Just Can’t Go Home Again / myLot

Daytona Beach, Florida

April 3, 2026 5:00pm CST

I have been writing and writing and then looking for more writing until my eyes feel crossed. I was listening to YouTube while I was working, and this song, “You Just Can’t Go Home Again," by David Cassidy came on. Now it got me to thinking; after one day I wrote over 4,200 words that were part of ten articles, and I could no longer think at all. Cassidy sings about returning to a small hometown where you know everyone and where great changes really make it seem like you just can’t return because nothing will ever be the same. However, in my case, I know NYC is always changing, and it becomes a challenge after a while. That is different, and I know that the places I long to see are still there. I can still walk down the block I was born and raised on. I also know that in my mind there will be a thousand films reeling because I also took my soul mate to my hometown a long time ago. I genuinely appreciate this song and its heartfelt lyrics; however, everyone, I am resolute in my desire to walk along the streets of Broadway at least one more time in my life. What do you think? Perhaps I should get an extra large hat and place it on the sidewalk and then dance down Broadway. That should entertain all the New Yorkers and tourists. Perhaps that might become my claim to fame. The photo is of me in the park I used to love Owls Head Park on what I called my bench in Bay Ridge, Brookly, NY and I know that is still there,

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@DaddyEvil (171186)

• United States

16h

I hope you get to make a trip back to your hometown and everything is still the same for you. I still live in my hometown, about 7 miles from where I grew up on the farm. The farm is still there even though our old house was bulldozed down right after mom sold the house and land. I've taken Pretty driving down the road past where our house used to be and told her stories about growing up there and riding horses and bikes on those country roads. I thought you might like to see some of my family that I talk about all the time. Photo is mine. 1982, I think.

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@crossbones27 (52493)

• Mojave, California

4 Apr

Sounds fun and why not. New York loves when people do crazy stuff like that. You only live once.

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Anne Marie Guyer

@LeaPea2417 (39803)

• Toccoa, Georgia

I would love to visit the house and neighborhood I lived in when I was real young, but I know it has changed a lot. So, I will just keep the memories.

Fleur

@Fleura (34474)

• United Kingdom

3 Apr

I don't know; if you know that what you love will still be there then yes, go and dance! Otherwise I think there is a fear of finding the place you loved changed too much.

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DianneN

@DianneN (252425)

• United States

Anything is possible if you set your mind to it. I hope that you can return to every place in your heart.

LooeyVille

@LooeyVille (73)

• United States

10h

My brother still lives in the past talking of the way the city USED to be and memories instead of accepting the present day situation

Amber

@AmbiePam (116663)

• United States

12h

I like your picture. This is the first time I’ve heard that song; thanks for sharing it.

Four Walls

@FourWalls (84601)

• United States

21h

I think it depends on the situation one left as to whether they can go home again. I hope you get back to the city that never sleeps!

Anna

@LadyDuck (497326)

• Italy

15h

Going back to places we used to love in the past is all the time deceiving. I had this experience more than once and I always thought "it would have been better to keep this place in my memory".