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Date: | Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:47:14 EST |
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I see now that its time for me to be done with this conversation and this
forum.
it's very hard for one person to try to vocalize a concept to someone when
that someone has yet to come to terms with something that they KNOW to be
true. Everyone on this board knows what is true and what is not, or we wouldnt be
here.
i sort of see it this way...
everyone here is on a journey. a long journey our of dairyland. only, we are
all at different points. some of us are just at the very long and slow
lactose intolerant beginning, some of us are in the hellish "how many names for
milk are there?" middle and some of us are near the "i cant believe i use to
eat that" end...if there ever is a end.
the beginning took me 14 years, i remember thinking in high school that
something was wrong with me. the middle took me 4 year. who knows how long the
end takes.
i can see now that no matter how desperately those of us who are way past
the middle wishes to save those of you at the beginning from all the grief and
trouble and the terrible lessons of it all..it's just not possible. it's
like giving birth. how are you ever gonna describe that to someone who hasnt
done it.
i also kind of see now that everyone has his or her own reasons for being
here. something caused you to start that trip out of dairy land. for me it
wasnt being sick and addicted and fat all of my life. It was creating life and
then seeing them becoming sick and addicted and fat. i am imagining many people
become active in this journey because of children.
I also see that people have there own way of getting where we are all going.
some of us, eg eric, are going kicking and screaming every step of the way
but still going. some of us do it with thoughtful acceptance... like jent.
and some of us do it with military like intelligent investigation..like robyn.
some of us do it at church...im not even going to say who that is lol. some
of us do it silently by staying up till one in the morning on the internet
every day and lurking in forums..that was me.
but you know, it's all still on the same road. and that's a good thing.
I also see that alot of people are not going to make it. they are going to
quit because it's too hard, or it's too complicated, or it's too scary, or
it's too expensive, or it takes too long, or it's too unbelievably simple or
its too addictive or its just too dang lonely a process when you're not a PETA
person or a vegan or robert cohen.
the last thing i want to do is to be one of the reasons someone stops making
the journey. the dairy industry will do it's best to get you to stop without
me helping it by fighting with eric.
so this will be my last response on this forum. my email address is
[log in to unmask] (mailto:[log in to unmask]) . if you have something to say to me
or a question or just want to argue i am up all times of the night if you'd
like to email me feel free. Im not an activist, Im not a conservative
christian, Im not a raving liberal, Im not a vegan or any of that. im just a black
33year old middle class single stay at home mom with two kids trying to make
sense of it all.
I will listen to you and talk to you if you want.
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