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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 1983727" data-attributes="member: 229">My advice is (and this is no joke) to go and perform some charity work through a church or local non-profit org that sends you to a third-world country (or even somewhere in the US after a natural disaster).I've been to Haiti and New Orleans (after Katrina) and have done some local tri-state stuff after disasters.  I can tell you that it puts some things in perspective for you.For the first week after I got back from Haiti, I wouldn't take a shower without first sitting in the bottom of the tub with hot water going over my hands thinking about how surreal this was that I had just left a country where this would be considered part of the absolute elite.  I gave away nearly everything I had before I left that place - food/meds/clothing - they had much more needs than I did.</blockquote>