June 18, 2009
Vegetarian
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Our believes change through life. For some things we say, we have overgrow them; that's the simplest answer to the question, why did I decided to stop eating meat. That's of course not the only answer, but when I try to find in myself any deep and strong reason, something I could offer as an answer, which would be pleasing, simple to understand and short, often I can't find it. Often, I can't find even any satisfying and strong philosophy, which I could tell to those willing to listen.
That I care about animals, it's probably obvious and I almost feel, that if I say only that, I don't say enough. Then, anyone who seeks for excuses in himself, can very simple put a "new age" label on me, and think - that I become an vegetarian, only because that's the current trend.
To point out any _breaking point_, the point on which I actually decided to stop eating meat, it's very hard. Actually, I doubt such a point even exists. It didn't happened nothing strange to me, nothing touching, but the decision slowly shaped, and grow up in me, as a consequence of many circumstances.
For me, vegetarianism isn't something, that happened, but it's an process which started on some point, and which keep running, and will be running probably 'til the end of my life. And it's a nice process, I'm encouraging it in myself, why? Well, simply because I really don't miss meat, I feel better when I don't eating it, and I have strong feeling that being vegetarian is the right thing to be. I found myself in that.
We all have ideas about ourselves, about who we are, and who we'd like to become. It's right to pay regard to those ideas, to research and develop them. I hear quite often, from people: "I am, who I am, why would I change?", so why would you? Only if when you feel inner need, inner aspiration to change, then it's meaningful and effective to work on it, and make a change. If that's the case, then you shouldn't say: "it's impossible", or "I am who I am, I can't change."
For me, becoming vegetarian was nothing else, but next step in my personal evolution, it was inevitably. But, as the processes of evolution goes, it seemed so natural, that I didn't search for any meaning, I actually hardly notice it.