Problems we can’t shake off

On what basis do we reckon what is important and what’s not? One person eats meat and thinks nothing of it, another would sooner die than touch the stuff. Two extremes of view. We might give up eating meat but what if we hate the idea of being vegetarian? We have to feel good about our choices, otherwise they won’t work. Problems don’t vanish just because we want them to, but they do get a good start if we feel good about a new choice.
Most of us have problems we’re trying to work through - works in progress. Maybe we enjoy trying to solve them - like looking for healthier foods, making more money or deciding what to wear. But we also have other problems that we’re forced to face, which pull us two ways at once. They’re difficult to solve and we’d love to be rid of them. They challenge us where we don’t want to be challenged. For instance, the nasty business of the foods we like to eat and what they do to animals on factory farms to produce it. That makes us feel uncomfortable. So we usually put this sort of problem into the too hard basket and as time passes, we convince ourselves that it’s an "unimportant matter". We usually have the support of our carnivore friends in this, and eventually we don’t give it a second thought. We try to forget it for the sake of our own ‘peace of mind’. Yet it’s not that easy if we have a sensitive conscience or an inquisitive mind. There are problems about our world which just won’t go away. And the longer we leave them the worse they seem to get. Solutions might be clear enough but it’s quite a different matter putting them into practice. Save animals – go vegan!! The very thought of it can make us feel profoundly uncomfortable.