In my late thirties i realised i ended up being that guy that always has a camera on him = source for pictures for everyone at the event. Actually i take my camera not only because i love photography, but because it almost gets you access everywhere. You don't even need to ask. If you have a big ass old school mirror Sony Alpha Canon something you just enter as if you had the permission and 99% no one cares. You can enter on stage at music gigs, you can access frontlines on any street event etc. If you're allowed to photograph at the venue you almost get a VIP access without buying the vip access, sometimes people proactively show you hidden places only because they see you have a camera that looks like professional like "hey, let me show you something you want to photogragh"

Well, i have a ton of memories that are preserved in a form of a tangible medium which is the hard drive where i dump my sd cards. Terabytes of everything from travel, school and sport events, music gigs, parties and weddings. Love it