I want to try and be vegetarian for a week
I'm writing this post on my phone, in an unexpected change of pace. I've never been into typing with my phone, but I know some people use theirs to write entire novels; surely, it's just a matter of habit.
Today has been a slow, mostly uneventful day. Not in a bad way. I got some great news in the morning, then left the office during lunch break to go have a meal outside and visit the local library (I returned my copy of Things in Nature Merely Grow and checked out Mal Peet's Beck and Kate Greathead's The Book of George). In the evening, I'll go eat at a Japanese grilled meat restaurant with my partner.
Which is a funny segue for my next sentence, which is this: I would like to try and be vegetarian for a limited amount of time, like a week. As I sort of trial. Of course, this would be after tonight's date. Of course, it sounds hypocritical when I say both things in short succession. But lately I've been feeling some kind of... heightened sense of responsibility for those around me, and I've felt for some years that becoming a vegetarian (if not vegan) is the correct thing to do for me. I don't mean to talk in absolute terms (again, it would be hypocritical of me), and everyone is, or course, welcome to do as they wish. But I've been losing hope for the future, as well as feeling an increased sense of love and gratitude for the planet... Somehow, I feel like I should take it upon myself to find those small actions that would benefit others. Tweaking my eating habits might one of them.
I was actually a vegetarian in the past, once, for about three months. But the reason why I did that was because I liked someone who was vegan, and so I tried to emulate them as much as possible. It is silly, but it's what happened. When my relationship with this person finished, I went back to eating whatever, because I had no more motivation. This time, my desire to try this again is not coming from someone else. I have no one to impress, just... I want to try. It might not work (and at the end of the day, reducing my meat intake would still be better than not trying at all). But I'm open to it, and seeing what happens to me, and how I will feel. Whether I fail or succeed. But maybe such a decision shouldn't be seen under the lens of success; maybe it's more about introspection and discovery. I'll be happy to report my findings in a week.