Today I met with an old friend at 2pm for a drink in the pub. I stuck with soft drinks (see my other blog). I chatted with him and his girlfriend which was really cool. The only vegan thing that came up was him saying so I hear youre Vegan now. I just said yeah it's been a lifestyle change in the last year and it's worked out really well. There wasn't any judgement and it was just nice.
I got out for a run after. See my run blog. That went well.
Later I went to the football with my Dad. The first match for 4.5 years. It was funny how a lot went through my mind. I enjoyed the match. An interesting 0-0 draw and nice to be at my childhood teams ground 'Old Trafford' again.
I thought back to a few days ago when a friend posted something on the Vegan page of football fans celebrating with a slogan along the lines of 'how great would it be if these people could be so passionate about something that truly meant something'.
It made me think about what a big part of my life football has been. Getting so excited, in tears over matches and now I truly feel I have accessed a deeper part of me. The excitement is still there for football but I kind of realise there's something so ego about it. I feel there must be some soul in the art form but I feel 99% of what all fans feel is all about ego. I'm sorry if that sounds arrogant but it's my observation. It's all about attachment to. The excitement of the goal and winning.
It's strange to feel back on all that part of my life and wonder if it was all just a waste. What did it really mean in the great scheme of things. It was cool but maybe a lot was just surface that I misunderstood as having real depth. I thought of everyone in Old Trafford. Likely people who ate meat regularly. The small proportion of Vegans and that brainwashed mentality of giving it no thought at all but looking away.
In my spiritual development group we speak of working with the heart (subduing it) and that makes sense. Being vegan helps that so is such a great grounding in life. It stops that attachment to things like football for me I guess. I thought about the SAFE campaign of people holding the dead birds which I couldn't go to and made me think that that's what truly means something and a key to truly make a difference, by altering the foundations of how we eat.
Life is changing so much now. It's so weird to think of all the football arguments and the stupid dramas around it when it should never be like that. Great to really be looking at spiritual teachings and people like Gandhi and Einstein for what's important. I love how they talk about vegetarianism. It does seem like my Veganism is something so true in m life that really makes sense.
Showing posts with label Gandhi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gandhi. Show all posts
Monday, 26 August 2013
Monday, 29 July 2013
How being Vegan can sometimes feel for me
--- to quote Barack Obama
'the security of America is the first thing on my mind when i wake up and the last thing when i go to bed at night'
It worries me sometimes that vegan lifestyle often feels like it encompasses that for me. I've never felt something that seems to be of such incredible and urgent importance and I want to make everyone see, or help everyone see. It's really hard sometimes because finally convincing a friend to have a meat free or getting some people to try vegetarianism does feel cool but i dont think theyll be enough.
I want the meat and dairy industry gone. I want them to be recognised as an absolute poison in our societies destroying our health on a physical and mental level. I feel they're brainwashing us and destroying a feeling of us embracing what it means to be fully human.
Great people like Gandhi, Mark Twain understand the importance of this when they say about 'as long as their are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.' 'A society can be judged by the way it treats its animals'. Why can't this just be absolute common knowledge? Why isn't such philosophy ingrained in us from us being little children. That'd make sense right? I can't believe I never felt on that level until I was 32.
My friend sent me a link about the use of a vegan diet in a prison. check it out. Interesting how the division between the different ethnic groups faded and people more grew in their rehabilitation and were less likely to reoffend. The project ultimately ceased for the pathetic reason you find here.
I've become increasingly aware since being vegan just how much power and control organisations clearly have over us. It shows how we are just controlled. I've felt so annoyed since my decision to become Vegan how its so simple and makes so much sense but yeah we're brainwashed to think otherwise. It makes me so sad too. I want to live in a world when adults and kids are taught about physical health and a vegan diet and how this is the way forward for our physical and mental health.
I want a time when we look back and what we used to do now and what an incredible error it was. A time when everything went down a path it should never have gone down. Or at the very least a time we went through which we had to go through to learn from. I want us to be taught how it is our job to protect and empower animals as being weaker than us to reach their potential and it's only through that can we grow into our fullest most compassionate selves.
'the security of America is the first thing on my mind when i wake up and the last thing when i go to bed at night'
It worries me sometimes that vegan lifestyle often feels like it encompasses that for me. I've never felt something that seems to be of such incredible and urgent importance and I want to make everyone see, or help everyone see. It's really hard sometimes because finally convincing a friend to have a meat free or getting some people to try vegetarianism does feel cool but i dont think theyll be enough.
I want the meat and dairy industry gone. I want them to be recognised as an absolute poison in our societies destroying our health on a physical and mental level. I feel they're brainwashing us and destroying a feeling of us embracing what it means to be fully human.
Great people like Gandhi, Mark Twain understand the importance of this when they say about 'as long as their are slaughterhouses there will be battlefields.' 'A society can be judged by the way it treats its animals'. Why can't this just be absolute common knowledge? Why isn't such philosophy ingrained in us from us being little children. That'd make sense right? I can't believe I never felt on that level until I was 32.
My friend sent me a link about the use of a vegan diet in a prison. check it out. Interesting how the division between the different ethnic groups faded and people more grew in their rehabilitation and were less likely to reoffend. The project ultimately ceased for the pathetic reason you find here.
I've become increasingly aware since being vegan just how much power and control organisations clearly have over us. It shows how we are just controlled. I've felt so annoyed since my decision to become Vegan how its so simple and makes so much sense but yeah we're brainwashed to think otherwise. It makes me so sad too. I want to live in a world when adults and kids are taught about physical health and a vegan diet and how this is the way forward for our physical and mental health.
I want a time when we look back and what we used to do now and what an incredible error it was. A time when everything went down a path it should never have gone down. Or at the very least a time we went through which we had to go through to learn from. I want us to be taught how it is our job to protect and empower animals as being weaker than us to reach their potential and it's only through that can we grow into our fullest most compassionate selves.
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