“As long as Man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love.”
In other words, don’t kill or eat animals. Be kind. Be VEGAN.
Update to my dining room cricket dilemma…I was in the bathroom last night, brushing my teeth, when I looked down and witnessed the offensively loud chirping cricket hop onto the rug right near my feet.
This was quite a distance for a cricket to travel, but without really thinking about that (and I should have), I reached down, scooped him up with a page hastily torn out of a book, and dropped him in the toilet.
And flushed.
As the water was swirling and he “swam” away, I instantly thought that I had missed a valuable opportunity to have a chat with another species.
Why in the world did s/he visit me like that? Was it random or was there a message I was meant to hear?
I should have paused and taken a moment to put myself in that little cricket’s shoes (so to speak) and I now wonder what that action attempted to communicate or convey.
Instead, I lost a potential new friend and even more importantly, I acted in haste and without concern for his/her welfare.
Anyway, I’m really, REALLY sorry. Je regrette mes actions.
On the other hand, that was apparently the source of the late night chirps…
Arthur Schopenhauer said it best:
A short preach: I became vegan in 1970, first of all because my high school surfer boyfriend decided to go vegan, and I continued to follow the meat-free path even after we broke up. I don’t miss eating meat. Chicken IS meat, so I don’t eat that either, in case you were wondering. in the past I would eat seafood once in a while, but I cut that out, too. The hardest thing to give up was cheese until I saw the video of the living hell endured by dairy animals. So there you have it. Oh, and my Chanels…so I still have miles to go before I’m perfectly cruelty-free.
Enchanted Seashells by Princess Rosebud 