Day 6 and 7- Water and Giving Back

This is was probably the most difficult thing I had to do, not flush the toilet the entire day. Although I remember learning in the past that every time you flush the toilet, about 50 gallons of water is utilized in helping your feces and waste make it to the other side (waste facility). So I took the advice from the no impact experiment guide, and this is kind of gross I apologize, but quoting what it said in the guide, if it was "yellow [I] let it mellow". This didn't work so well with my little sister who screamed "oh my god! someone didn't flush". Remembering the article on consumerism, we are taught at a young age to waste and consume effortlessly, we are taught to flush every time, to use disposable objects, such as diapers, cups, napkins, etc., to throw anything we feel we don't need anymore away, so it was not difficult to understand why my sister found this inconvenient. Then for taking a shower, I decided to time myself for 20 minutes, cutting the time I usually use to take a shower in half. Surprisingly, I found it to be a work out. Well, not really, but it did get my adrenaline going because I didn't want the timer to go off when I still had soap in my hair. I discovered it was something I could adapt to. On Saturday, today, there was not much opportunity to give back. The things I did do, like hold a door open for someone, letting someone borrow a quarter, putting trash that I found on the floor in a trashcan, I did not classify as alturism. I think that that is just something we should all do because its the right thing to do. If someone needs help, you help them, it doesn't necessarily mean you're this wonderful person if you do. But I admit I do always feel better for doing so rather than just letting things wander aimlessly if I know I can provide my help. If everyone did this, then we could live happier because no one would be completely suffering, what I mean is that everyone would at least have the basics, food, water, shelter, health care; There would be a greater sense of equality. It would NOT make the wealthy lose their incentive to work because their act of giving back will be repaid with the happiness they acquire from the good feeling that they did something good for others. If we all share, we will consume less and we will become a more balanced society.