Is it easy to become a vegan?

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Up in the clouds, we vegans can easily forget how we got up here; we end up thinking the change we made (going vegan) was all quite easy, and we go around telling everyone that it will be just as easy for them.  "Going vegan is simple and quick", but it’s not for everyone.  For some of us it’s more like an alcoholic giving up the drink.  For some of us it means making a massive decision about ourselves, perhaps triggered by a realisation which might have been brewing for some time.  Our own journey, stage by stage, might have been sparked by compassion, and that is what we try to hold onto, while we’re mixing with the day-to-day world.  But it’s easy to slip back into our old ways.

It’s rather like coming out of a movie, feeling pumped by the whole emotional impact of what we’ve just been through, and then later on, as we walk home, the details fade.  And we can’t remember quite why, only a half-hour ago, we got so carried away.  It’s much the same with making such a bold decision, to become vegan.

         

With new ideas, attitudes and opinions, if we don’t examine and digest them thoroughly at the time, then the power of them fades too quickly, and nothing consolidates deeply enough.  And then we don’t get around to making the big changes suggested by the big idea.  We revert back to our safe-old, lifestyle habits and attitudes.