Yo! I feel like I’ve been kinda bad at answering your questions lately. I guess summer came in between, as a blogger it’s hard to keep the same posting pace when all of your friends are on springbreak doing fun stuff all the time haha. So from now on I thought I’d start picking up some of your questions from my comment sections in my posts. This one is first out, since it’s a really important topic to me and I know it’s probably the most common question/comment too:
“To be honest I feel a little bit disappointed. I felt so inspirated every time you posted about your veganism and how good you felt by not causing pain to animals and watching you eating eggs and moule is kind of disappointing. At the same time I think that trying to please others sucks and at least you are not hidding yourself or pretending you are still a vegan and I really appreciate it.”
“Ăr inte du vegetarian/ vegan? Eller Ă€rter du fisk ibland? Undrar bara, för Ă€r sjĂ€lv vegetarian som ibland Ă€ter fisk och kan tycka att det möts av förakt av vissa vegetarianer. Tycker personligen att en ska Ă€ta det som kĂ€nns rĂ€tt. Hur tĂ€nker du?”
Okay- to begin with I’m NOT a vegan anymore. I know some still seem to think I am but I hate to admit I’m not. I still thing animal rights and environment is the one question I’m really passionate about, and I still truly believe veganism (maybe with consuming fair trade/eco musseles- that’s a discussion I’d love to take in another post soon) is the best way to live both for your health and conscience. I can’t explain what happend to me, but about a year ago I just got very claustrophobic of all the “rules” holding me back, not just in my diet but also in life in general- being a girl and blogger in today’s society means that there’s alot of things you’re supposed to and not supposed to do, so I just decided to not care that much anymore, for my own mental health’s sake. I think I forgot the reason to why I was doing what I was doing, it was more about following rules and making everyone happy than an ethical statement.
Now when I’ve let myself be free from that a while I’ve realized that my body and soul prefers vegan food 90% of the time anyway. To find that feeling is very nice- now I feel like I can eat vegan because I truly want to and not because I just decided not to eat meat. It feels like a choice more than a restriction.
I guess what I am trying to say is that nobody’s perfect- especially not me. But I’m still the same old Ebba who’s passionate about animal rights and the environment, even though I’ve been eating cheese and fish and mussles once in a while the past year. But still, I’ll probably go back to a vegan diet soon anyway,