#be kind to all kinds

[spiritualseeker777]

#kindness #be kind to each other #be kind to others #be kind #be kind to all kinds #wisdom

[birdgirl22]

A message that falls on deaf ears but ill always preach it <3

#good omens michael #good omens fanart #good omens #archangel michael #yep #be kind to all kinds

[recovering-and-healing]

BE KIND TO ALL ANIMALS.

#recovery blog #motivating quotes #inspirational blog #be kind #be kind to all kinds #be kind to animals #happy holidays #love all

[vegandude72]

#be kind #be kind to animals #be kind to all kinds

[kittycatlukey]

Everyone, just be good humans. I’m so tired…

People who are “anti-woke” are people that are asleep— they’re sheep. It's ignorance and fear. They like to deceive… manipulate. Don’t let them brainwash you.

Just be kind. It’s not hard.

Love your neighbor.

Stay woke.

#the real Jesus #agnostic #agnostic atheist #atheist #satanist #hail satan #lgbtq+ #love your neighbor #love thy neighbor #just love #love others #be kind to all kinds #be open minded #truth #be kind always #christianity #wake up #woke culture

[animalsoutloud]

When are we as humans ever going to stop oppressing others (race, ethnicity, gender, species) simply because we see those others are 'different'?

#similarities not differences #equality #equal #peace #humans #human beings #end speciesism #discrimination #stereotypes #inequality #quotes #daily quote #be kind to all kinds #speciesism #fairness #life is beautiful

[zuckarr]

1 year as a vegan 🌱 an honest overview

I'm a 30 year old woman, and I decided to go vegan in April 2022. I was never a vegetarian. I switched from an omnivorous diet to a plant-based diet overnight, and I have strictly adhered to the latter, with the only few exceptions being accidents.

I would like to write down how my journey as a vegan has been so far, what pros and cons I encountered and how my overall health was impacted. I intend to talk with my heart on my sleeve about everything and I am totally open to questions or clarifications. This post is nothing more than my own subjective, unique experience as a relatively new vegan person. However I won't be talking about the morality of veganism, nor the reasons why I decided to go vegan. I want to give voice to the bodily and mental changes I am going through instead, plus a few personal final thoughts.

I'd like to begin by stating that:

I have been taking several blood tests during the last year in order to keep track of the changes.

I have been taking vitamin B12 supplements as strongly recommended by every single doctor and veganism related website/source.

I have no prior sickness of any kind.

HEADACHES.

Headaches used to permeate my days before going vegan - so much that I had stopped noticing them (when bearable). During my first week as a vegan, the sudden disappearance of my headaches felt like a miracle. I would've never anticipated how life-changing that was. I was so used to my head pounding that the absence of the pain couldn't have gone unnoticed. I figured out I am intolerant to dairy, as countless others are, and yet I used to munch on cheese as my go-to comfort food... as countless others do.

BLOATING.

Bloating was probably also caused by my daily ingestion of dairy products, and was one of my body's cries for help. I did not feel bloated anymore once I started eating plant-based. The skin on my belly was softer at the touch and not as tense as before. People around me began asking if I had lost weight. I hadn't. It was just me deflating, lol.

SLEEP.

This is one of the most unexpected changes: I noticed I've been sleeping less, but better. I started waking up an hour or two earlier than usual, feeling well rested. Thanks to that, my days got longer, my mind got clearer, and my mood improved almost instantly.

ENERGY.

During the first weeks, I felt very energised. Must've been all of the vitamins suddenly filling my body! Who needs to get high when you can get the iron rush from a bunch of spinach, like good old Popeye taught us? Nevertheless, the energy sort of dissipated over time and I've been feeling pretty normal ever since.

POOP.

Oh no, it's poop talk! Fend yourselves, because I am not scared of being descriptive here. Long story short, I used to have frequent diarrhea before going vegan. Once again, my dairy intolerance most likely contributed to creating funny looking brown stuff. If I asked you how's your poop looking, what would you answer (assuming you wouldn't slap me)? And would you know what a healthy poop is supposed to look like? Welp, let's just say I've been proud of my toilet appointments since going vegan, because all I see are Pacha meme worthy sausages. Going to the loo is a happy time now, in comparison to the long minutes of agony spent with stomachache and funky smells.

FLATULENCE.

Can't have booty talk without mentioning the #1 cause of laughter among kids since the beginning of time! Farting is funny, but it is first and foremost the sign of a healthy gut. It takes a quick Google search to find out what farts truly are and why our bodies need to produce them. I confirm one of the most innocent prejudices against vegans - yes, we fart more than usual! But if you read into it, you'll only wish to do the same. Still, it is a largely acceptable change, and has not caused me any discomfort or unfortunate situations whatsoever.

CHOLESTEROL, IRON, PROTEIN, ETC.

Before going vegan, I had high cholesterol, high fibrinogen, low hemoglobin, low albumin, and a few other things that weren't importantly unbalanced. As aforementioned, I've taken several blood tests during the last year which showed ALL of the highs & lows quickly going back to normal. When I saw my cholesterol lower for the first time, I cried. I haven't had normal cholesterol for years, so, seeing that was nothing less than a miracle for me. As for my iron and protein, they increased! My fibrinogen was REALLY high, which could've resulted in a heart attack due to a vascular occlusion, but I don't risk that anymore. I cannot express how ecstatic I am to be considered medically healthy now. I wish somebody had told me earlier about the health benefits of a plant-based diet.

COOKING AND GROCERY SHOPPING.

I was never a big fan of cooking, because I was mostly just hungry all the time and I couldn't be bothered to prep meals or to even chop up vegetables. As a vegan though, I was kind of forced to look at recipes in the beginning - I was pretty lost and didn't know what to cook! Well, vegan cooking turned out to be much easier than I thought. I remember my first vegan grocery shopping experience: a whole new world opened up in the mall. I had never looked at the veggies and fruits and legumes and seeds and cereals section properly before! It was ENORMOUS! Boxes and bags and baskets of wonderfully colored food, most of it really cheap (especially legumes); with half of the money that I used to spend on cheese and meat, I had double the amount of food in my shopping cart and I was so ready to start cooking. The more I cooked, the quicker my cooking skills drastically improved and I have so much fucking fun in the kitchen now! I made countless vegan meals and cakes, loved by everybody (non-vegans asked for recipes more than once!), even by my mother! She used to slaughter chickens and had never baked a cake without eggs before, and yet, she admitted that this way of eating is fantastic and convenient. After a few months, she praised my hair and skin because it looks brighter and healthier. As a matter of fact, I feel nourished and full most of the time. Most importantly, I began to feel grateful and to think of food as a way of loving myself and nurturing my body, rather than a mere matter of taste.

SOCIETY.

The problem with being a vegan in a human society is... other people. It is always, undoubtedly other people who will come @ me with their weird, uncalled for, and rude anti-vegan claims as soon as somebody ELSE reveals that I am a vegan. I swear to god. I have no idea where we picked up the scenario of the 'annoying vegan' because the truth is actually the opposite... it is others who annoy ME... whenever they asked questions, I was happy to answer and explain stuff, because I genuinely thought that they were interested and would have liked learning something new, just like I would've felt if they had talked to me about something that they are passionate about. But nope, the real reason why most people asked me questions was to 'debunk' what I would say and feel like they won the argument. Even though it wasn't an argument at all. It wasn't long before I started noticing the patterns, the same old questions asked, the same rebuttals, over and over, in an endless cycle of going nowhere. So I simply learned how to differentiate the 'gotchas' from the rare, decent people who truly want to know more about veganism. As for going out and eating out, it wasn't as hard nor as expensive as I anticipated. We now live in a very vegan friendly time, there are vegan alternatives to basically everything. I feel extremely lucky to be a vegan now, because I can't even begin to imagine how hard it would've been years before.

PEACE OF MIND.

There is a duck pond nearby and I often take walks through it. Sometimes I sit on a bench, look at the beautiful birds and their dreamy plumage, and I... appreciate them. Not for their meat, like I used to. I can't even fathom seeing those creatures as food now. I appreciate them as individuals, who dream, love, dance, think, sleep, bond with their kin... I feel at peace with animals and nature on a whole other level. I realized how wrong it felt to eat a steak and then pet my dog. I learned so much about animal agriculture, nutrition, human rights, environmentalism… and I have so much more to learn yet. It takes one heartfelt glance into an animal's eyes, to be reminded that we are all the same. I am honored to get to choose not to be cruel to them.

#vegan #veganism #go vegan #use your hearts and brains #be kind to all kinds #veg 🌱 #personal

[soulscribblingshack]

Ghosted.

This title, probably already has given you a hint of what this little write up is about. Well, I have a question for you, though.

Have you ever been ghosted before?

And for those who may be wondering, no, I don't mean haunted by a ghost, I mean, like dropped. When no warning is given to you or anything and someone you've had a personal relationship with just dumps you...starts to pretend you don't exist, you know, like you're some "ghost they cannot see".

If you haven't been ghosted before, then you probably would not really be able to relate to any of this. But if you have been, then, ah, my friend, you do know the feelings of humiliation, indignation and utter confusion that come with being "ghosted".

It happened to me quite recently. I got ghosted by my ex. We were not, in fact, dating anymore, but, we were still "corresponding", (much to the dismay of my dear, dear girlfriends. sorry babes, and I love you). I was still harbouring feelings for the guy and was at that delicate stage where I thought that we could somehow still work it out as "friends", (the biggest lie I told myself). And while that in itself was not a terrible thing, it appeared he had other plans. So, picture it. We're talking as usual with all being perfectly normal and all of a sudden, he stops responding. Just. Like. That. No warning at all. No, "Oh, I'm sorry, but I don't want to talk to you anymore." Just a cold, cruel dropping. Sucks, doesn't it? At first, (and at first had taken quite a while, to be honest), I was so sad. So sad and in denial that he would do that to me. I mean, it was a habit of his, and he had told me several times about how he had done it to other people, but I had just always thought of it with a detached sense of understanding, because I had been deluding myself to believe it was always going to be just them and never me, because I was special to him and, um, you know that sort of thing. So, to have it done to me was humiliating and surprising. I had really not seen it coming.

Eventually, (which came at long last. thank heavens), I left the losers club and began to feel quite vexed, (because, you know, I'm a queen and no one gets to treat me like that, blah the blah). I went ahead to delete his number and all that, until he texted an unsuspecting me one night. He said he was sorry for ghosting, you know. He said he wanted to check on me and all that, and I, of course, pushed whatever bad feelings I had been holding on to, just so I would not come off as confrontational or anything. We had started a small conversation and I had thought all was well again, until he stopped responding, altogether, because, maybe he had decided half way that, "nah girl. I ain't up for this convo", after all. Whatever. I was beyond pissed this time, and swore that you know, never again will I reply his texts and blah blah, but the joke is on me now, because, um, he never texted back. (so sigh. it appears that all my carefully plotted pettiness has gone down the drain).

But, you see, it was probably well deserved, because, (asides from the very glaring fact that I should have been wiser and quietly left that boy alone when we broke up), I had actually done this very disgusting, humiliating act to someone else before. Yes, I want to act self-righteous and play the victim, while rolling around in self pity and all, but what goes around really does come around.

I had once ghosted someone just the same way I got ghosted. Nothing exactly happened. I had just decided I was disgusted with this person and did not want to talk to him anymore and I had done it. Even though he had tried, incessantly to reach me, even though, he had done absolutely nothing, I had just pretended like he did not exist at all.

And, that brings me to the whole point of my story. Ghosting shows you absolutely do not care about the other person's feelings. It is a cruel act that shows you are an unfeeling brute with zero regard for humanity, (or, maybe just the one person involved). It is hurtful, utterly and completely hurtful. It really would not cost you anything to just give a tiny explanation as to why you do not want to talk to a person you have been close to, anymore. Now, how they choose to take it is solely up to them. The point is, you have acted like a decent person, with morals, with, you know, an actual heart.

I, eventually resumed communicating with this mystery guy, (and I'm definitely not making this a guy-girl thing, only), but only after our mutual friends had intervened. I had not had any concrete reason for doing what I did, and explaining to him had just been extremely lame. But the one thing I would not forget is how bad he had felt. It had made me feel like such a shitty person, and there and then, I had vowed that I would never do that to another person. I vowed that I would be a decent person and point out why first before I altogether stopped speaking to someone I was close to, (if I ever have to, that is). Because every body has feelings and no one deserves to be treated that way, and you may not really comprehend how hurtful it is, until it happens to you, until you get ghosted.

To end this on a good note, however, me getting ghosted probably was the best thing for me at that point, because it finally made me see what my friends had been relentlessly warning me about, (bless their little hearts), and it helped me finally let go. It helped me see how unhealthy my preoccupation with this boy was. I had been holding on to him, still, even though we had broken up and that was clearly beyond pathetic. So, thank you, I guess, big guy. You have, howbeit unwittingly, taught me a lesson I may never have learned by myself.

#be kind to all kinds

[spiritualseeker777]

#spiritual awareness #spiritual awakening #wisdom #be kind #be kind to all kinds #be kind to each other #be kind to others

[littlemisspascal]

#pedro pascal #daily reminder #my poor edit attempt #do good and good will come to you #be kind to all kinds

[vintagevamp876]

#words that matter #love one another #be kind to all kinds

[vegandude72]

#be kind to all kinds

[kittycatlukey]

@venusrise34 🤍🌈🌹

“Find what you love”

“Love your neighbor who doesn’t look like you, think like you, love like you, speak like you, pray like you, vote like you. Love your neighbor (no exceptions).”

“Follow your heart, live in the moment, choose happiness, always be kind.”

“The move you are scared to make might be the game changer.”

“Good friends are like stars. You don’t always see them but you know they’re always there.” ✨

#natural life #love #loveyourself #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqiap #lgbtq pride #lgbtq positivity #love others #follow your heart #follow your soul #follow your intuition #do what you love #do what makes you happy #choose happiness #live in the moment #always be kind #be kind #be kind to all kinds #love your neighbor #lgbtq poc #transisbeautiful #trans pride #enby pride #genderfluid #gay #lesbian #bisexual #pansexual #intersex

[animalsoutloud]

#be kind to all kinds #kindness #compassion #empathy #peace #dogs #animals #be kind #go vegan

[fvneral-m00n]

If you make people feel alienated or belittled weird or small for mental illnesses that they have to battle day in day out with, you are the sick one. Not us, just trying to survive

#abelism #abelist #disgusting #bullying #be kind #be kind to others #be kind to all kinds #love your friends #mental health

[be-kind-to-all-kind]

Veganism, by definition

“Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible and practicable—all forms of exploitation of, and cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose; and by extension, promotes the development and use of animal-free alternatives for the benefit of animals, humans and the environment. In dietary terms it denotes the practice of dispensing with all products derived wholly or partly from animals.”

#vegan #veganism #use your hearts and brains #you've got them for a reason #animals like us #we're animals too #basic biology #we're all one #be kind to all kinds #be kind to all kind #original post by me #original post by be-kind-to-all-kind