Be Well

[Guest guest]

Namaste.

 

Yes, when we went veggie people thought we'd die, or waste away, or

otherwise ruin our health. Quite the contrary, of course.

 

And our families were never terribly supportive, but it wasn't their

problem. You're right, they worry out of love and out of being

misinformed all their lives. Brainwashed, as the excellent posthumous

George Harrison CD is called.

 

As to the Vegan thing, the only ones I've known to stir things up are new

converts intent on crusading to make themselves feel better, and

anti-vegetarians who somehow construe a political stance from personal

dietary choices. In either case, it's their problem, not yours.

 

Be well.

 

 

On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 01:08 PM, (AT) (DOT)

com wrote:

 

> My biggest challenge in becoming a vegetarian is other people's

> prejudices, well, to be specific, my family's feelings about it. My

> friends and work colleagues are quite cool about it and a few are

> veggies too. But my family think its wrong and assume i'll be very

> ill! Now they don't say anything but my dad tells me my mum is

> worrying about what to cook for me when i go to visit, which i'm

> sure is a guilt trip coz i always cook with my mum and she always

> has loads of veg in! Anyway, i know they only worry out of love, so

> i do my best to reassure them.

>

> Hope this vegetarian/vegan debate doesn't heat up anymore! Phew! I

> must say though its made for some interesting reading! Lets just

> remember we're here to share and make friends.

>

> bye for now,

>

> Laura UK x

>

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In

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conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In

work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

~ Tao Te Ching