Post your slice to schoology by the start of class Friday!
A regular habit that I am humbly proud of is picking up the various, improperly discarded items that litter the hallways and sidewalks I walk. At school, I typically find pencils (because who'll ever need a pencil again???), stray notecards and handouts, and gum and candy wrappers. On the sidewalks of campus, it's the same kind of stuff plus empty cups from Sbarro's, and fliers for shows and guest speakers that have flown right off the light poles they were hastily taped or stapled to.
I pick up this trash in communal spaces because I take ownership for my actions and feel responsible for the world. If I enjoy and thoroughly love a place, why shouldn't I take care of it, even if it is picking up after other, arguably ignorant people? For example, the National Mall in D.C., which links the Capitol, the Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and the White House, is so delightfully beautiful with the expanse of grass and people and history bouncing with music of the Smithsonian's carousel, flapping kite tails in the sky, and the energy of thousands of people on any given afternoon; why wouldn't I want to pick up an empty Gatorade bottle and put it in one of the tens of recycling bins located throughout the space? Hmm, there's no good reason I can think of not to.
When people say, "But there are people paid to pick that up," I want to yell back at them, "Nooooooo, custodians and grounds' keepers have plenty of other responsibilities than to pick up things that you consciously, selfishly cast onto the ground or floor!"
Is it a grandiose idea to expect you to be responsible for yourself and the trail you leave through the world? I say, "No, being truly alive is about being more than a hedonistic parasite taking and never giving back." In the millisecond it takes my capable legs and back to bend down and pick up a granola bar wrapper while a garbage can is in sight, I am only better for this effort; no particles of my being or mist of my soul is depleted by helping and working.