Why
did it take me so long to see?
by Marianne Nicholson - N.Ireland
It had been eating away at me
for months and I chose to ignore it. I didn't know what was
happening to me, it was like I wasn't me anymore ... but I was
me and I was becoming a new me; a me that I should have been
a long, long time ago but I was so very slow in my quest to
be a better "me" and to see what I was doing along
with the rest of the world.
I am a very avid animal lover.
I hate to see them hurt or abused in any way. I do not understand
why people are so cruel and why they do the things they do without
remorse or emotion it seems. I ask myself how could they hurt
a defenceless animal that has no need to harm them and does
not even know why it is being harmed.
My decision to become vegetarian
was a long road for me. I tried to be a "veggie" once in my
youth but that lasted only a year. Now that I am older and wiser
my resolve has strengthened and I have read up and informed
myself more of what happens when we use animals for meat, clothing,
fur etc etc. It breaks my heart completely and utterly and I
get very angry at what I see and read. I get even angrier at
myself that it has taken me so long to finally realise that
I have also been the cause of the animal suffering simply by
buying a hamburger or packet of bacon.
I am glad that I now finally
see that there is a right way to be and a right way to treat
other living creatures that are sharing this planet with me
and who are no harm to me and want to live and be as I do too.
I only wish that everyone in
the world could happen upon this enlightenment that I feel now
and someday realise themselves that they too should change their
ways and become vegetarian or vegan.
If anyone who is not vegetarian
reads this please listen. The animals are here to share the
planet with us, they are not here to feed our desires and cravings.
We survived long ago without this need for murder and slaughter.
There are more pro's than con's to being a vegetarian.
See the light and let it envelope
you.
Animals are love.
Placed in the Looking-Glass Time
Capsule November 2005
