Being Vegan Again!

I am vegan!I have been trying to be vegan since I was 15 years old. The only person really getting in my way was me. When I first started to be vegetarian it waas difficult convincing my family that what I was doing was healthy. They all worried about my health. "Will you get enough protein?" was the most commonly asked question.


Being vegan has proved nothing but to be healthy. And Yes, I get enough protein.
I feel so much better NOT EATTING MEAT.
I feel that when I eat meat the flesh just sits in my body, rotting.

When I got out of highschool and moved out I claimed VEGANISM! Living on my own I could truely be my self. I was really strict about being vegan for a few years then I became flexiable at somepoint. Almost indifferent to my diet.

Thus, the slippery slop began... for instance, if I was at someone's house and they offered me something with meat in it I would politly consume the meal with no questions asked.

Except for; Why aren't you being true to yourself?

I wasn't. I was not being true to myself. I know deep down that I am a vegan. The idea of meat disgusts me and the way we have created animal farms as factories appals me.

Our society is very disconnected to our food and where it comes from. People must think it just falls out of the sky! No one ever asks where there hamburger came from or how many cows were slaughtered for that one big juicy chunk of bloody flesh.

Paul Mc Carthy of the Beatles said, "If slaughter houses were made of glass, the world would be vegetarian".

BING BING BING

FEAR OF SUCCESS

Ultimately, we all want to be successful. The definition of success varies from person to person but I think it is safe to say that ultimately everyone wants to be SUCCESSFUL.

But is it safe to say that maybe some of us have a fear of being successful? That maybe we do not push ourselves to our full potetional.

So then, what happens when we become SUCCESSFUL? Increase of sales, production, work, money, stress. There seems to be an INCREASE of a lot of things based around SUCCESS.
So instead of being SUCCESSFUL, we decrease sales, decrease production, thus decreasing work and SUCCESS.

caught in this web

Has anyone ever told you something that you wished they didn't? In mid sentence you just cringed. But what if this information changed how you view a relationship and/or a person?

I mean do we really always need to know everything? Why do people find the need to tell you things that really you don't need to know.

I like to think that it is better to not know, somethings are meant to be unknow.
THE TRICK IS NOT KNOWING THE ANSWER

why do we twist our bodies into these akward poses? what do they teach us?

transitions

Recently I have experienced a lot of change in my life and with change comes transition. The hardest part of change. They say it takes three to four weeks to transition adjust to new things in your life.

All this change came about when I was practicing yoga 20 hours a week. let's just say the yoga pushed back, and hard. For a while right after my intense training with yoga I was afraid to do yoga because it had pushed me into this transitional state. I knew I had to make changes in my life but did not know where to start.

After crying on the mat a few times I finally realized what I had to do. It wasn't easy. I fumbled a few times. Went back on my words and actions. But then one day I just turn to my boyfriend and told him how I felt. I had to start by breaking up with my boyfriend because "you ARE the company you KEEP" This is something my yoga teachers says quite often. I was keeping some pretty bad company at the time.

Looking back, I knew that I did not want to be around certain people because when I was with them I was misrable. However, I had a really hard time getting away from them. I kept telling myself, "they need me...I make them happy" But I did not make them happy and nor did they make me happy. I was very UN-HAPPY.

This made me reflect on what it means to be happy. What is happiness? and what makes me happy. I came up with several ideas but mostly simple things make me happy. I know that the people I surround myself with is vital to my happiness. If I surround myself with people who are snarky and bitter I will start to absorb these qualities and become snarky and bitter myself. Which I know I am not either of those deep down.

Finally, after three months of transition I feel that I have finally settled. I feel lighter, brighter and free. I am myself now and will continue to change and grow with the people who surround me.