How My Travel Box Helps Me Recall Memories

Blogging about travel experiences is a great intangible way to remember everything. Whenever I go to a new place or experience a new thing at the pre-visited place, I try to write about it. It helps me relive the events all over again when I read my blogs. Even so, sometimes I do not get the time to write a blog or an article, but I feel incomplete about my travel if I do not write a word. Nevertheless, in the last five years of constant travel, I had to find a solution for this, and I discovered it in the form of my Travel Box. Before I had created a Travel Box, my souvenirs would lie around the house here and there, and even I would find it difficult to recall the exact place of belonging of each article. But since the day I started depositing all my keepsakes in that chest, I find it remarkable to go back to all those memories whenever I want.

The emotions 

Each of the mementos I buy or collect from tourist places have some or the other emotion attached to it. When I meet new people, and I try to have a picture clicked with them. When I visit a new place, I try to buy something that reminds me of it. If I find something originating from a region, I make sure I keep at least one little reminder of it. The famous tourist attractions hardly entice me, but I go to these places just for the sake of it. I cannot forget to mention that more than 90% of the celebrated tourist icons of every place in India and abroad disappoint me just because of the crowd that rushes there. I cannot like a place just because everyone does. I have no shame to admit that I will never revisit Taj Mahal, just because of the mismanagement of tourists that goes on in Agra. Even though the monument is counted among the Seven Wonders of the World, and it is beyond question stunning, it is a pain to reach there. I have been there once, clicked a picture, bought a souvenir, and I am done forever, at least until the situation in Agra improves.

Anyway, coming back to my gorgeous Travel Box, it comprises of all the unforgettable memories. My emotions attached to places can be funny, sad, scary, pleasant, or unexpected, but I do want to remember all of them. I have an issue with my memory that I cannot recollect many of my memories if someone does not narrate it to me or I do not have something to relate to it. That is why; I love my Travel Box so much. I will not trade it for anything in the world. 

The achievements 

Every place I travel is an achievement for me, be it big or small. I do not need to show off my triumphs to anyone; they are just for the contentment of my soul. I have traveled so much in all these years and experienced so many things that I can write a book about it, but I suffice myself with my blogs and relics. Sharing my endurance with a Pen Name gives me more satisfaction than flaunting them in front of naïve people who may not even want to listen to me. My first trek to Triund in McLeod Ganj was a great feat for me, so I kept a Tibetan flag that I had bought from the place. The first time I had used the Self-Drive Car Rental App to book a sedan for my Jodhpur trip, I took a screenshot of the bill and kept it in the Memories folder on my laptop.

I have made many such similar memories while traveling with or without my friends and family, and I love each of them. God knows what destiny has planned for me, but I would like to take up the responsibility and plan my own travel. I want to make stories and memories at the maximum places possible. I want to attempt, I want to succeed, I even want to fail, but I never want to stop.