Souvenirs

Going on vacations and being able to bring back souvenirs is a privilege. Being able to go on a vacation at all is a privilege, to be frank. It is a first-world problem to not know what to bring back to remember your trip. But everyone wants to have momentos of their time. Somebody may try and tell you, "oh your memories should be enough in themselves", "well you took photos of your time there didn't you?", "you spent all that money on the trip and you didn't bother getting me something to bring back like a cup or a hat or something?". Let them ask, tell them no, tell them it isn't any of their concern, tell them that maybe they should go themselves and they can get whatever momentos they think they want themselves. 

How you choose to remember different moments in your life, different trips you take, different achievements you have surpassed; that is completely up to you. You can choose to just live in the moment. You can choose to take a million photos and share them on social media with all your friends, or maybe create a giant photo album to look back on. You can choose to get crushed pennies, a pencil, a glass, a t-shirt, or a bag of peanuts from the plane with the name of your destination; get whatever you want!

Just be careful in what you are trying to transport where because you may end up falling into trouble with law enforcement. Be careful with trying to transport drinks or food. Be careful with taking pieces of the natural habitat like flowers or sand, rocks, and shells. Sometimes there are guidelines against these things for a reason. Sometimes they are stupid reasons but other times it is a matter of you bringing an invasive species to a new habitat or taking it away from an environment that does not have any extra resources to give.

Be kind in what you do when you travel but enjoy yourself and make memories that will last a lifetime because you never know when your lifetime will let you go through these events again.