Vegetarian
Our believes change through life, for some things we say we have overgrow them; that’s the simplest answer on 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 simple enough 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.
— A Still Life With Fruit And Vegetables On A Table by David Emil Joseph de Noter
I care about animals, and that’s probably obvious and I almost feel, that if I say only that, I don’t say enough.
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. Nothing strange or dramatic happened to me, nothing touching, the decision slowly shaped and grow up in me, as a consequence of many circumstances.
For me, vegetarianism isn’t something that just happened, but it’s a process which started on some point, and which does 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, simply because I don’t miss meat at all, 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 should I change?”, so why should you? Only if 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 noticed it.
