A kind hearted person keeps on going.

[GodsAngelbaby]

Okay so i am very senstitive. I cry all the time , i cant eat meat (if i do once in a while with my b/f if we eat out i have to keep what i am eating out of my mind or i will cry). To think of the animal and how it grew up and was abused and then slaughtered, all the pain and fear it went through for what? We as ppl don't need to eat meat to survive. We used to need to back in the day but now we don't and in fact our food today is very unhealthy i wont go into much detail and bore ya'll to death.

And i see on tv or hear on the raido of all the topics we don't want to talk about needless violence this person being killed or those tv comercials were kids are homeless and dying as they have no food or medical help
then they show all those celebrities who have millions and i just cant find how its far but i gues it not a perfect world eh..

how can i keep going on in this world and fine happyness when the world is full of such unhappyness?

gabby

[WildChild]

You have to quit focusing on the negatives - that can be hard to do, we are bombarded with so much. I was actually ordered by a doctor to go on a news fast at one time in my life because I getting so stressed. Start looking for the positives and there are more than you think. Yes there are lay offs and a financial mess but if you look at what some of the new, small companies are developing you will be amazed. This is a transistion time and people resist change even if it for the good. Some of us have been saying for years that the changes had to come, as a society (pretty much world wide) we've not been proactive and now the changes will come because there is no longer a choice. Much of it is good! It's just going to take some time.

Look for sources of positive info. I read a number of publications including Forbes , Fortune and Mother Earth News and find heartening information in them all the time - a lot of it is your perspective! I've just subscribed to ODE magazine which is targeted to intelligent optimists. You might want to check it out.

I was a vegetarian for a number of years - the story why I'm not now is too long for the moment but remember that there are different qualities to this. Some animals are raised naturally, given free range and not pumped full of hormones and junk, others aren't. We all have a place in the food chain, (I believe plants have awareness too) and there is no wrong in responsibly and respectfully consuming food plants and animals. What is wrong is misuse and waste.

Your hyper emotionalism is probably part of your response to some of the difficulties you have faced in life. My guess would be that as you mature and gain more life experience this should take the form of greater compassion and understanding and you should become less reactive. You might find some of the material available now on HSPs (highly sensitive people) helpful. It was very much so for me. We are all works in progress -you can become your own masterpiece!

[GodsAngelbaby]

well no don't get me wrong i have a lot of happyness in life aready and i know more will be coming my way. And some of it does come from my childhood. But sometimes i just wish that things would be differently (not for me but for the hole world) i know we cant wish for world peace thats not ever going to happen as we are all sinners and all but one part of this hole mess that i cant help but be depressed about is me as a single person cannot do anything about it as a hole.

i am happy in general as i know if i dont look past it then i will just die of depresion but i dont ever want to become one of those hard hearted people my sensativity is not a burden its a uniqueness that i can have and share im not alone for instance my b/f is also sensative but im sure in that part of everyone's life's we are all different.

im a christian now since 2005 and ever since then i was changed for the better. and i do see the world as not a lot do and some say even though im not yet 25 im mature in some ways way beyond my years but on the same hand im not at all book smart and its okay with me i do however plan on someday going to college and get married maybe have a baby or 2.

~Life is a gift , that's why its called "the present!

Gabby

[CHANDLERS WISH]

Nothing wrong with loving animals.. I save bees from a swimming pool haha.

However, do you eat fish? eggs? seafood? chicken? ham? are these things also out of your daily food plans?

What about when you pull a leaf? Plants aren't alive?

It's a no win situation, animals and generally fed so well, so they get fat, and they travel somewhere and then don't really know what happens, but they probably led a good life first , it's called survival we have to eat.

It's great to feel the way you do, but that means, bread, butter for you and that's about it, everything is "living"...

It's okay, understand "survival" and they do the same, they all eat something that's living to survive don't they? Plants? Other animals?

CW

[GodsAngelbaby]

nope i dont eat those things (however i do eat food that is made with eggs and milk in it like pasta's.) but if i make food for myself i don't (im lactose so i cant eat or drink dairy.
one thing for me is i dont feel the guilt trip for eatin plants as they may have feeling but to me they dont give love. like the baby cow i had it loved me as much as it could fallowed me around needed me for food liked the attention and to be petted..ect so .. i dont feel bad for plants. (and for reptiles its the same kinda they dont 'give love back to us ppl but they do to there family its funny i guess but i dont eat them or sea food )
(when i grew up i was very small and heard that there is murcury in the tuna fish and would refuse to eat it lol, yeah i was a strange child)

i relize one mistake i made when i was little i watched the 'Chew on this dvd it is a documentary of how animals are slaughtered chickens getting there beaks cutt off. pigs being beating to death cows being boiled and still somewhat alive.

now i also relize that for some animals its not that terable of experience they grow up happy then die , but they are mammals and feel fear and pain. but i am a christian and i also understand that God mad man to rule over the 'beast and that we use them to help us work and for sacrifice and also to eat. it does not mean we are to eat them we can survive withought eating meat and for the most part its not healthy the meat nowawdays with all the chemicals and sicknesses BUT, i also belive that no matter what happends to the animal that it is going to heaven when it dies as i belive they have unclean souls as they dont have a 'voice and are not born with sin.
the bible says that 'Heaven is a land filled with milk and honey
okay so if u take that literaly then there has to be flowers bee's and cows at least
maybe there are or not but i like to think there will be as i love animals and one thing that was taught that Hevean is everything that makes u happy so for me animals do.

i like plants they are pretty im alergic to pollen but my mom gardens a lot she has over 300 pics of her pants on my photobucket site to post to her garden forums. and i enjoy panting them to show there beauty im not sure if u can post pictures in here but if u wanted to see pics i can give you my photobucket site if u pm me or something i have over 700 pics on there family frinds foster pets pics i painted of my nephews nursery..ect

i don't know i have a respect for ppl animals and the earth. as much as i can as i am only one person. im the kind of person i dont do things to others on purpose even when others are not nice to me but i belive that everything happends for a reason (God's reason) and sometimes we cannot understand why things happen the way they do or what good could come out of a certian situation but im sure if u look there are other's but like i stated i don't see things like most do.
maybe my veiws are wrong i dunno.
and i most likely did not answer any questions and got of topic wich makes more questions sorry ya'll

gabby

[GodsAngelbaby]

Oh and i forgot about Veal (im not sure if i spelled that right?)
but i had never eaten it and someone once was complaning about the high cost of it at the store i asked what it was to my horror they told me it was the meat of the tender baby cows that are taken away from there mothers and chained to a stake so they could not get up to walk around (never learned how to walk) as walking would make them tough to eat.
also they live a life in the dark so they just sleep all day and eat and eat
im not sure what realy goes on with them but for sure if they would have called it 'baby cow instead of veal a lot of ppl would have to give a quick second to eating it lol not a good sale name for sure.
i wont eat that unless i dont relize what i am eating.
once when i was little i was eating and they asked if i new what it was it tasted like chicken to me they all laughed and said nope its snails and frog legs i spit it out and was very upset. more so they were laughing at me than what i was eating. but yeah.

my family has never been saported in my efforts to not eat anything that is was or could be alive my father was very unhappy and almost forced me to eat what they made for dinner ie hot dogs..ect

but i dont force my ways on others i dont get made to see others eating meat i dont mind and i grew up learning how to cook everything meat included. as i said when b/f and i are eating out on our raod trips i do usualy end up getting a meal that invovles meat sometimes so im not those crazy's that will absolutly not eat it. i just think about other things and try not to think about what it was.

yup yup

gabby

[CHANDLERS WISH]

like the baby cow i had it loved me as much as it could fallowed me around needed me for food liked the attention and to be petted..ect so .

Like I can't eat Kangaroo, "yep they eat them in Australia", because I saw them a zoo's and there was a tv programme and the Kangaroo was real and played a roll and was everyone's friend...

That's why it's not black and white to you, and that's why you have trouble eating meat and see them as "loving" pets, and don't see anything in the same light.

"In my opinion" off course.

CW

[GodsAngelbaby]

yeah i seen a travel show were they ate Kangaroo's tail bbq'ed. i would not like to eat that unless i was starving and had to of cource im not saying i would let myself die.

and that baby cow was raised and later slaughtered and eating not by me of course

i realy don't know maybe i will never understand why i feel the way i do..

gabby