Days 4 & 5, oops

Ok, so i missed yesterday to the crazy amount of stuff going on so im doing a double post thingy here. The past two days have been good in terms of keeping up with drinking only water except for 1 tiny exception. Staturday inbetween soccer games the team went back to someones house, i had gatorade and hot chocolate, the fact that it wasnt water didnt even cross my mind until later, it just happened. Friday on the other hand was a good day and i had stuck to it pretty well. No problems there.

My view on the world has changed from thinking about the themes of Emerson and Thoreau. Both of these Transcendentalist thinkers have made their impact on the world, but i think that Thoreau has impacted me more personally. The idea of living simpler, that if the world at large decided not to use as much fuel for 1 week, could save so many people and animals so much. Now imagine, almost 7 billion people not driving a car for 1 week, just one week would save an ungodly amount of fuel. Now although this may seem unrealistic if you think smaller and on a wider scale it is possible.

Technology is the clutter of modern times, but it is also the life saver to many. The simplification of life as a result of technology has made both a positive and negative impact on the world at large. Cell phones, for example, have made it possible to run a buisness from anywhere, message multiple people at once, and talk to someone around the world from a device that fits in the palm of your hand. The downside is people relying on this to stay in contact instead of face to face communications. The positives definately outway the negatives in the technolgy is bad argument and this is why people still use it today.