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Becoming vegan is like buying
a beautifully engineered car with its engine ready but still cold. It needs a kick start. It needs more than fearlessness - it needs
understanding. It needs confidence that
the kick-start will overcome inertia. Going
vegan is like falling in love and then having to learn how to live together. We grasp the big idea well enough, but how do
we get our brain around it? How do we
spark the great engine into life and keep it running?
We’re just humans with normal
frailties and fears, so when we ‘go vegan’ we get energy wherever we can find
it. We talk about it, even boast about
it. But then we have to make it work. Perhaps we squeeze it too hard. We try to make it take on too much importance,
too soon, because we don’t want our good idea to lose momentum. We know this idea deserves our best shot, but
if we get stressed about it we have to examine where the problem really is. Maybe food isn’t the problem, maybe the
problem is people’s opinions of us or the problem is about the slowness of
people to come around to discussing the subject with us.
For all vegans, young or old,
when the scales fall from our eyes (seeing just how many people who will NOT
see) things become stressful. The
conventional world, which is so reliant on animals, so psychologically fixed on
animal-use, is hard to live in. But we
vegans have to learn to live with the stress of that. It might be ‘hot’ in here,
but heat or no heat, let’s not ‘get out of the kitchen’.
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