When you've lived on your own for long enough, going home to spend the summer with your parents initially makes you worry that all of the "growing up" progress that you've made at school is going to suffer. After spending months away doing your own thing, you seem to have forgotten how to live under your parents' roof and everything it entails.

It's not that you're not excited to be going home, it's simply that you don't know how to behave. The internal awkwardness that you're experiencing is represented rather frequently in the behavior of Nick Miller, who is entirely too self-aware to be as poorly adjusted as he is (does this sound familiar?)

However, you soon realize that this concern of yours isn't quite as bad as you feared and being home for summer is probably a decent break.

When you first get home and your family smothers you with affection before you've even had a minute to breathe from the trip home,

But then you realize that your only responsibility is unpacking from the year

When you're reunited with your friends that you haven't seen in months

And you get to be yourself again

When your parents have food at home:

When you run into the person that you tried to forget, but sure as hell hasn't forgotten you:

When you have a bad day and get home prepared to unload it all on whomever is willing to listen:

When your parents are around to answer all of your absurd questions:

When your old friends tease you about who you are as a person, because it's just been too long:

When your parents hear you refer to school as "home" and home as "my parents' house:"

When you start to miss your friends at school:

When you realize just how ready you are to go back:

...but then you also realize going back to school includes 8 a.m.s, all-nighters, caffeine overload, and finals week:

Yeah. I think I'm okay with staying here for a few more weeks.