Interrupted

My Life Thus Far
2015-09-16 08:07:31 (UTC)

I Just Want To Know The Facts

For the first time in a long time I managed to drag myself out of bed with enough time to get ready, grab something for lunch AND stop at Starbucks for a coffee. I know that's not the most important thing in life, but I make no apologies for liking Starbucks. It's almost like it's fashionable to dislike Starbucks now. To each their own. I enjoy my coffee. Not everyday, but often enough.

I had yesterday off, I worked a mid shift today, now I have tomorrow and Thursday off. Knowing I have the next two days off made getting through today very easy! It wasn't busy, but I went into it knowing that it probably wouldn't be, and that's okay. I don't have to blow sales plan out of the water everyday. I'll make up for it somewhere down the road. Last month's sales incentive numbers posted tonight. I did pretty okay. Money isn't everything but I'd be lying if I said it didn't make life easier. I'm grateful for all I have. Someday I hope we reach a place were we have to think about money even less. I know that's asking a lot, but a girl can dream.

I almost feel guilty feeling this way, but I'm starting to get the vibe that my biggest problem when it comes to continued happiness and presence in my life are other vegans. There is no doubt I feel drawn to veganism. For the first time in a very long time, I'm in a place of deep contentment, centeredness, peacefulness, and simple joy. I'm not doing cartwheels, but I can honestly say the curtain of sadness has been lifted and the sun is shining into my life. It's a beautiful thing... and then I go into a vegan group on Facebook and the vegans are going at each other. It never fails. It's always about the most trivial stuff, too. I don't understand how a group of people who are supposed to be like-minded and on the same page, manage to fight with each other about the smallest nuances of their interpretation of veganism. It's totally unacceptable to put your own health before the animals. You're less of a vegan if you do this, you can't call yourself a vegan if you do that. I am by all definitions a vegan. I don't eat meat, dairy, eggs, honey, or any other animal byproducts. I no longer purchase anything tested on animals, I don't buy leather, fur, feathers, pearls, bone, or anything else derived from animals. We stopped going to the zoo and aquariums. I never was into riding horses. I am vegan. And yet, if you hang around a vegan group long enough, someone will accuse you of not being vegan at all because you bought something with palm oil in it. Or because you don't stand on a street corner passing out fliers. Vegans are their own worst critics. They talk about how bad omnivores are, but I encounter way more hostility from some of the more extremist vegans in those groups, than I have from any of the meat eaters in my life. Would I love everyone to give up the use of animals as commodities? Hell yeah! But I'm not delusional enough to think that's going to happen anytime soon. I'll continue to live as an example, and hope more people have the same epiphany as I've had.

Cowspiracy came out on Netflix today, and it's all anyone can talk about (in the vegan world). I haven't seen any of the documentaries that many people have seen that persuaded them to go vegan. I can't. I'm so sensitive, they would ruin me. Forever. I can imagine they're very persuasive if someone needs a visual aid in an effort to give up animal consumption. I want to be able to speak to the facts presented in these documentaries, but I just can't watch them. I don't feel compelled to watch them at all. I just want to know the facts within the documentaries, so that I can spread the knowledge to others who may be interested in giving up animal exploitation.




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