i've been vegan for 7 years now, vegetarian for 3 years before that. the idea of eating meat or dairy is disgusting to me now, but still, as for the vegan lifestyle, never being able to eat anywhere, it ALWAYS being a pain in the ass to find food, never being able to just spontaneously go somewhere and know i'll be able to find food, always having to check ingredients on EVERYTHING, i'm sick of it and kind of wish meat and dairy wern't disgusting to me. i'd cash my chips in in a second and go back to being another one of the people who don't have to worry so incessantly what they can eat. not to be a cheeseball (no pun intended) but i wish i could take "the blue pill" or whatever and just be ignorant about it all.
part of it is also, it's easy for people to be all zealous about veganism when they're newly vegan and all these ideas seem new and exciting and make so much sense and you feel better for being vegan and all that, but after years and years of it, at least for me, i mean i still obviously agree with veganism and wish everybody was vegan, if nothing else so that my own life would be much easier, but i just started seeing it as all futile. vegans comprise less than %1 of the earths population. we realisticly are not making a dent in any of the problems associated with not being vegan. thems the facts, as much as it sucks. so in the meantime i incessantly check ingredients on things and am always the killjoy that "sorry, i can't eat that..." and become the catalyst for everyone to rant about why they hate vegans as soon as they find out i am one, and have to explain at EVERY SINGLE FAMILY FUNCTION what i eat and don't eat and why and all this crap. i'm tired of it.
i'm still not going to go back, i just wanted to rant.
part of it is also, it's easy for people to be all zealous about veganism when they're newly vegan and all these ideas seem new and exciting and make so much sense and you feel better for being vegan and all that, but after years and years of it, at least for me, i mean i still obviously agree with veganism and wish everybody was vegan, if nothing else so that my own life would be much easier, but i just started seeing it as all futile. vegans comprise less than %1 of the earths population. we realisticly are not making a dent in any of the problems associated with not being vegan. thems the facts, as much as it sucks. so in the meantime i incessantly check ingredients on things and am always the killjoy that "sorry, i can't eat that..." and become the catalyst for everyone to rant about why they hate vegans as soon as they find out i am one, and have to explain at EVERY SINGLE FAMILY FUNCTION what i eat and don't eat and why and all this crap. i'm tired of it.
i'm still not going to go back, i just wanted to rant.