2010:
Habits are like friends - we
rely on them, we’re familiar with them but they can be trouble. Try changing a
habit and a little voice says, “oh no you don’t”. We learn not to tinker with
our own internal balance. We’ve become so identified with our habits that we
hardly notice that they, under cover of ‘personality’, control our behaviour.
Fiddle with a habit and you reveal a dangerous-intention-to-change. And
‘change’ always means trouble.
There are two types of
trouble: the noticeable trouble that springs up immediately, when we intend to
change, and the sort of trouble that comes later, when the changes are set in
and they start affecting everything we do. “Trouble” is something we try to
avoid.
Trouble is what vegans take
on. They give up heaps of favourite foods (troubling at first) and then set out
to confront people and persuade them to change - if you want trouble, there’s
no better than a vegan for bringing it on! But by causing trouble and then
accommodating it (for ourselves at least) it’s a freeing process, and
eventually becomes an attractive process, especially when habits become more
fluid.
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