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Id like to get a tattoo saying 'remember' but translated in Latin. I have learned that the translation depends on what message it would like to convoy with 'remember'.
The message id like to convey is mostly a message to myself to not forget how happy I felt during my time in another country and that I want to keep remembering that feeling so it will not fade over time. I want to stay motivated to go back when I can. I would like to keep it to one word/two words maximum if possbile.
Memento precisely conveys that meaning, in my opinion. It is an imperative (like "do this", "do that"), which means "Remember!", as in "Do remember".
This word is part of a very famous expression: memento mori. There are a few question on the meaning of such expression in this site. E.g. here.
To emphasize the aspect that you want to keep remembering it, I suggest the future: meminero, "I will remember". It sounds more nuanced than the plain memini, "I remember", but both are equally correct. Neither of these is an order to yourself; these more like promises. If you prefer an order, luchonacho's answer gives you that.
If you want to add emphasis, you could do something like semper meminero, "I will always remember". With the constraints you give, the only possibility seems to be to add an adverb (like semper, "forever").
Just to correct what Rafael has said above: the verb “memoror” is NOT attested in Classical Latin. It won’t even come up as such in most dictionaries, and when it does, it is clearly indicated it is Ecclesiastica Latin / Medieval Latin. All the occurrences in Classical Latin in the link given reger actually to memor, adjective. “Memini” is definitely the verb for “to remember” in Classical Latin, while “memoror” is just a Late Latin invention.
In Classical Latin, this idiom was used: in memoria tenere: to hold in memory "Memoria" is in the ablative, as the object of the preposition, "in."
"Tenere" is the infinitive of the 2nd conjugation verb, "teneo, tenure, tenui, tentus," to hold, to grasp.
Another verb is memoror, its 2nd person imperative being memorare, 1st person future active, memorabor. Hence you have to forms for each:
Both verbs, memoror and memini, are Classical and reasonably common, with the former seeming slightly more common (according to searches that could be noisy, so don't just trust them blindly).
