"You don't like to think about the fact that someday you will do nothing and be nobody. You will only allow yourself to preview this experience when you can disguise it in a narrative about how you are doing many exciting and edifying things: you are experiencing, you are connecting, you are being transformed, and you have the trinkets and photos to prove it."

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/the-case-against-travel #travel #abidingnowhere #trinkets