4. To Be a Storyteller
Don’t bring home souvenirs; bring home stories. Without even realizing it, you will have in your possession a collection of stories that will forever be a part of you. That time in Spain when you missed your flight because you stayed out too late with the locals and had to train 36 hours back to your host family. When you caught a ride to dinner on the back of a scooter from a 70-year-old restaurant owner in India. When you waded through river water up to your waist in the pouring rain on a trek through Taman Negara, only to find yourself covered in leeches. What were your friends doing that night? Do they even remember? Our guess is probably not.