Veganism: a journey through moral recovery.

So I've been thinking a lot about my journey with veganism or should I rather say a plant based lifestyle for a while now and I found it fascinating how many parallels I was able to draw with it and my drug addiction journey. I first went vegan in 2015 when I was 16. I used it to get over anorexia, which means I can honest to God say that veganism saved my life. Although I first converted for health reasons, the more I researched the cause the more I fell in love with the moral/ethical side of the movement. It didn't take long before I was completely hooked, and for good, I thought. However, something I didn't know back then that I know now is that meat in itself is an addiction and I ended up relapsing. And I found that just like with my drug addiction I only relapsed when I was majorly depressed and I felt like I had lost control of my life, the most dangerous place for me is to be in a state of not caring, because then every and anything goes. Being the extremist that I am, very dangerous indeed. Now, I'm in no way shape or form justifying my relapses I'm not even saying that they were even ok either, rather that they were human and that they happen. In my opinion, how you know you're working an active and rigorous recovery, moral or otherwise, is if you pick up, see your mistake, learn from it and actively choose not to pick up the next time. That's when you know that your program is working because it's not about how many times you fuck up, its about how many times you choose to clean up after yourself after the fact. I still call myself a proud vegan today because I am still in love with the message and I am determined to stay working my moral recovery. So this is me signing out wishing you a blessed and sober day.

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