If you can’t stand the heat ...

1030: 

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, a confident kick-start spark to 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 all have frailties and fears, so when we ‘go vegan’ we get energy wherever we can find it.  We talk about it, even boast about it, and then we have to make it work.  Perhaps we squeeze it too hard.  We 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 maybe the food change isn’t the problem; 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 that others don’t yet see what we can so clearly see) it’s stressful.  The conventional world which is so reliant on animals is psychologically fixed on animal-use.  We vegans have to learn to live with that - it’s ‘hot’ in this ‘kitchen’, but that must never be a reason to ‘get out the kitchen’.