Hi Everyone!
My name is Fellipe I'm 30 yo brazilian just made my mind to go Vegan after more than a year being veggie and wanted to share with everyone how I got here =)
2 years ago I was weighting 80 Kg, despite being slim, fit and active for my whole life. But you know, marriage, kids, stressful work kept me going to Mc donald's non stop, and when I realized my health was f.. up, I was fat, tired and getting sick quite easily. I faced myself in the mirror and started to re-evaluate everything in my life, it was a deep experience.
So I started to change, went to the gym (crossfit) and started to work out, lost 16 Kg in 4 months and got my shape back. But still felt something was missing in me so, again I meditated and tried to search inside me what was lacking, why I was still sad, despite being in shape again. So I started to pay attention how I felt during the day and noticed some uneasiness every time I got to work. "what am I doing here? I don't like this job!"
So I get back in time and realized that I chose this career because of my parents, because it pays well and they could be proud of a son earning a lot of money. My parents lost everything when I was young so money was always the issue, the taboo.
I realized that I wasn't happy because of money itself. Money robs your freedom and enslave you to the point that you treasure it more than anything.
Around this time, I happened to watch a video on youtube called "the lie we live", it was so eye opening made me realize that I was a slave of marketeers, government... I was a puppet, I wasn't following my dreams, I didn't have a purpose in life, I was just existing, I wasn't living.
I realized that existing is not the same as living to the fullest, I've started noticing ppl with no possessions being so much more happy than me with my fancy car, fancy shoes and stuff. So I started looking for my purpose, and watched another movie, a discovery channel's production called racing extinction and it made me realize how we are destroying our planet for profit's sake. I couldn't bare it, I felt it's so unfair, coward and selfish to use an animal's life just to satisfy our hunger, when we have some many food options that do not require any sacrifice. So I felt that the right thing to do in that occasion was to go veggie. I was still consuming the animal products such as milk and eggs, because I had the wrong idea that "It's fine, the animal is still alive" and "it's not dead meat". But I was wrong.
Recently I gave it a second thought about how chickens and cows are being sucked dry in the industries, in exchange for food... And I realized it is no different from what the system do to all of us. We are being sucked dry by industries, our jobs and everything that is supposed to shut our consciousness down, so we won't complain and after all these years being a slave, when we are to old to perform our jobs we are thrown away by the system, by the market and in some cases even by our family and that's no different from what happens to animal's on eggs and milk farms. Our life cycle is so alike, we are born, fed, raised to produce something from someone else in the future, and this someone will have huge profits from us, and when the time comes and we can't provide our "services" anymore, we are discarded.
So this mind set made me want to go vegan! We need to break this sick cycle imposed to us and also to animals. We were born free, we are self aware, we need a meaningful life, not one based on chainless slavery.
That's my moto, the industry won't slave me anymore, I won't buy their products and I'll look for something that really makes me happy, I'll find something TRUE!
How much of our lifetime is really ours? See? We sleep 8 hours a day, spend 2 hours getting dressed, shaving, brushing teeth and driving to work, another 8 working, another 2 hours getting back from work, eating dinner, showering, etc. For most ppl they only have 4 hours of their day to themselves. Our life is not really our own... and that is so sad.. Still we can change and live to the fullest making right choices, not based on money but on our heart.
Sorry for the long post! it would be cool to share our stories here =) I'd love to read yours!
My name is Fellipe I'm 30 yo brazilian just made my mind to go Vegan after more than a year being veggie and wanted to share with everyone how I got here =)
2 years ago I was weighting 80 Kg, despite being slim, fit and active for my whole life. But you know, marriage, kids, stressful work kept me going to Mc donald's non stop, and when I realized my health was f.. up, I was fat, tired and getting sick quite easily. I faced myself in the mirror and started to re-evaluate everything in my life, it was a deep experience.
So I started to change, went to the gym (crossfit) and started to work out, lost 16 Kg in 4 months and got my shape back. But still felt something was missing in me so, again I meditated and tried to search inside me what was lacking, why I was still sad, despite being in shape again. So I started to pay attention how I felt during the day and noticed some uneasiness every time I got to work. "what am I doing here? I don't like this job!"
So I get back in time and realized that I chose this career because of my parents, because it pays well and they could be proud of a son earning a lot of money. My parents lost everything when I was young so money was always the issue, the taboo.
I realized that I wasn't happy because of money itself. Money robs your freedom and enslave you to the point that you treasure it more than anything.
Around this time, I happened to watch a video on youtube called "the lie we live", it was so eye opening made me realize that I was a slave of marketeers, government... I was a puppet, I wasn't following my dreams, I didn't have a purpose in life, I was just existing, I wasn't living.
I realized that existing is not the same as living to the fullest, I've started noticing ppl with no possessions being so much more happy than me with my fancy car, fancy shoes and stuff. So I started looking for my purpose, and watched another movie, a discovery channel's production called racing extinction and it made me realize how we are destroying our planet for profit's sake. I couldn't bare it, I felt it's so unfair, coward and selfish to use an animal's life just to satisfy our hunger, when we have some many food options that do not require any sacrifice. So I felt that the right thing to do in that occasion was to go veggie. I was still consuming the animal products such as milk and eggs, because I had the wrong idea that "It's fine, the animal is still alive" and "it's not dead meat". But I was wrong.
Recently I gave it a second thought about how chickens and cows are being sucked dry in the industries, in exchange for food... And I realized it is no different from what the system do to all of us. We are being sucked dry by industries, our jobs and everything that is supposed to shut our consciousness down, so we won't complain and after all these years being a slave, when we are to old to perform our jobs we are thrown away by the system, by the market and in some cases even by our family and that's no different from what happens to animal's on eggs and milk farms. Our life cycle is so alike, we are born, fed, raised to produce something from someone else in the future, and this someone will have huge profits from us, and when the time comes and we can't provide our "services" anymore, we are discarded.
So this mind set made me want to go vegan! We need to break this sick cycle imposed to us and also to animals. We were born free, we are self aware, we need a meaningful life, not one based on chainless slavery.
That's my moto, the industry won't slave me anymore, I won't buy their products and I'll look for something that really makes me happy, I'll find something TRUE!
How much of our lifetime is really ours? See? We sleep 8 hours a day, spend 2 hours getting dressed, shaving, brushing teeth and driving to work, another 8 working, another 2 hours getting back from work, eating dinner, showering, etc. For most ppl they only have 4 hours of their day to themselves. Our life is not really our own... and that is so sad.. Still we can change and live to the fullest making right choices, not based on money but on our heart.
Sorry for the long post! it would be cool to share our stories here =) I'd love to read yours!
