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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
the fuel of fearlessness - it needs a confidence kick-start to overcome
inertia. Going vegan is like falling in love and then learning how to live
together. One can grasp the big idea well enough, but how to get the brain
around it, to spark the great engine into life and keep it running?
We’re all just
humans with frailties and fears, so when we ‘go vegan’ we must try to get
energy wherever we can find it. I had to talk about it, even boast about it,
anything to make it work for me. I squeezed it too hard so that I wouldn’t let
my good idea lose momentum. I knew this idea deserved my best shot but it
wasn’t obvious. My most difficult problem wasn’t about denying myself certain
foods, it was people’s opinions of me and my own attitude towards them that
caused the initial trouble for me, especially their reluctance to discuss the
subject with me.
For all
vegans, young or old, living within the conventional world, which is so reliant
on animals, we have to learn to live in some sort of peace, with that. For us
it’s psychologically ‘hot’ in this ‘kitchen’, but on no account can we ever
afford to ‘get out the kitchen’.
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