It’s the hippie in me.
I saw this picture today while going through my whole Flickr ritual and realized that I’m in this exact place. I’m at a point in my life where I want to stop poisining myself. I want to stop putting bad things into my body and then wondering why it responds unkindly to me. I’ve thought long and hard about becoming a vegetarian and, sooner or later, vegan and I feel like it’s the right step for me. I don’t really know why I’m fighting it. I guess because it’s so much easier not to be one. Because it’s so much easier to pick up something and just shove it in your mouth, not thinking about where it came from or what’s in it. For the last six months, I’ve been eating healthier than I have in a long time and I feel myself slowly slipping…especially since I have this second job now. I just don’t want to get back to the place I was. I don’t want to look in the mirror and be completely disgusted with what I see.
I know that I don’t need to become a vegetarian to be healthy, but I think that I could be happier with that lifestyle. I feel like it’s the direction that I’m going. I’m still in the thinking/talking stages of it though and I still have a lot more research to do. I just want to make the best possible choice for my life right now.
