Keep Your Train Tickets | Travel Motivation | 2018

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KEEP YOUR TRAIN TICKETS.

Even if you don’t see a reason for it. Even if they’re crumpled or torn. Even if you know you’ll never ride that train again. Even if you read a book about “minimalism” that convinces you to cut back on your possessions. That’s cool – cut back on clothing. But keep your train tickets.

Keep your postcards. All of them. Even the ones written by people you don’t speak to anymore. Life is long, and people grow apart. But someone once thought enough to write to you and mail it. Respect the thought. And respect the postcard. That little card journeyed around the world to your mailbox. In the endless mail cycle of bills and tax forms, a postcard offers hope.

Keep the free map you get when you visit a new city. Even if it’s falling apart. Even if someone scribbled messy directions on it for a seafood restaurant by the park. Even if you don’t imagine you’ll ever be back in that city. Fold it up, and find a place for it in your luggage. I know your bag is getting heavy, but do it anyway. Keep that map just in case.

Keep it all in a shoe box. Keep that shoe box in the back of a closet, or in a dusty attic. Some place you’ll forget about until five or ten years down the road. You’ll stumble upon that box and get lost again. You’ll visit a city you never thought you’d go back to. You’ll speak to a friend for the first time in years. You’ll ride a train you had long since forgotten.

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I’m not telling you to stop using technology. I’m not going to call out selfie sticks and hashtags, or to lament the loss of a more authentic way of living. I can’t – the only way I’m communicating with you is through a video. What I will say is be careful not to let technology use you.

Are we really going to measure our memories through likes on a computer screen?

Keep taking pictures. Keep updating your status. Keep downloading the newest app if you feel it adds value to your life. But keep some old boarding passes and metro tickets, too.

In thirty years your online friends won’t care what’s in that shoebox. They won’t care who scribbled directions on that city map or who sent you that postcard. But there will be a few people who do care. A few people who will sit beside you in an attic and open an old shoe box. A few people who do want to know where that train was going.

Or maybe there will just be one person.

Maybe you’ll look up and see your wife, or your husband. Or your grandchild. Or maybe just your own reflection, in a dusty mirror, looking older than you remember. For whenever this day does come, for whoever is beside you as you go through the attics of your life – keep your train tickets.
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