It’s important that you keep your feelings and your self worth in different places because when feelings get hurt it shouldn’t change how you view yourself.
“You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole–like the world, or the person you loved.”
— Stewart O’Nan, The Odds: A Love Story (via books-n-quotes)
If you ever feel bad about taking a longer time than someone else to accomplish the same things, just remember that during the 1912 Stockholm Olympics Japanese marathon runner Shizo Kanakuri passed out in a garden party along the marathon route and, instead of notifying race officials of his inability to finish the race, he went back to Japan without telling anyone and was considered a missing person by the Swedish authorities for 50 years.
He didn’t finish the race until 1967 when a Swedish television station offered to help him complete the run, and he finished with a final time of 54 years, 8 months, 6 days, 5 hours, 32 minutes and 20.379 seconds.
This post needs the picture of the man finally crossing the finish line.
“ When someone cries so hard that it hurts their throat, it is out of frustration or knowing that no matter what you can do or attempt to do can change the situation. When you feel like you need to cry, when you want to just get it out, relieve some of the pressure from the inside – that is true pain. Because no matter how hard you try or how bad you want to, you can’t. That pain just stays in place. Then, if you are lucky, one small tear may escape from those eyes that water constantly. That one tear, that tiny, salty, droplet of moisture is a means of escape. Although it’s just a small tear, it is the heaviest thing in the world. And it doesn’t do a damn thing to fix anything. ”
I have little faith in humanity when I hear about parents who force veganism on their children (especially infants).
I completely understand that vegan parenting is not the norm, but what really bothers me about this kind of sentiment is that it assumes that only raising your child vegan is a choice, as if raising your kids to eat animals isn’t also making a choice on their behalf. All parents try to impart their values onto their children, that’s part of what parenting is. If you force your child to be vegan later in life when they are old enough to choose for themselves then that is a separate issue, but when you are making decisions on behalf of someone who cannot do so for themselves then you choose what you think is in their best interests, for vegan parents that will naturally be a vegan diet.
Besides, is unlikely a child raised vegan will experience any distress or guilt later in life because they ate plants, whereas all vegans can relate to the regret they now feel that they ever ate animals at all, even though they didn’t know better at the time.
As soon as I was old enough to understand what is done to animals I stopped eating them, but until then my parents made the decision on my behalf, which is the exact same thing that vegan parents are doing.
Keep in mind, it isn’t an issue of health, a vegan diet provides every nutrient and vitamin the human body requires, it is perfectly safe to raise your child vegan, and to be vegan while nursing. I’ve met quite a few people raising healthy vegan children, as well as adults who were raised vegan, there is no evidence whatsoever that it is harmful. You can read personal accounts of raising vegan children here here, and read short individual biographies of healthy vegan children here. The NHS have said that vegan babies and children can be perfectly healthy, and the American Dietic Association says that well-planned vegetarian and vegan diets are appropriate for all stages of life, including infancy.
No one talking about vegans “forcing their diet on their kids” ever wants to talk about the damage forcing a meat eating diet on a child can have, either. How many children are raised on processed meats and cheeses then when they’re older don’t even have the choice to be healthy because their diet has permanently damaged them? Those numbers must be in the millions, but this argument is never used against people who raise their kids to eat known carcinogens. Veganism represents a healthy, positive and ethically conscious way to live, and those of us who grew up eating meat can only envy those children who will be given such a great start to life. Besides, so long as these kids are being loved and well looked after, then what else even matters?
“Depression is something that doesn’t just go away. It’s just there … and you deal with it … and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.”
““For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, i hope you have the strength to start over.””
Feeling more comfortable within myself and it feels good to not hide. I’ve worked so damn hard for this mindset and body it’s about time to feel okay again. Self love is so important.
always choose to be with someone who is emotionally intelligent. don’t get caught up in the fact that you are loved, because love comes easy. but loving someone in the way they need, and understanding why they need to be loved like that is what a relationship is about.
