Moonlit Sunshine

Veganism - The new fad that’s been on the block for a while now. Wiki says, Veganism is a philosophy and lifestyle whose adherents seek to exclude the use of animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose. It’s a wisely coined word that combines the beginning and the end of “vegetarian”. Even figuratively, it does. It’s a self-imposed discipline that serves to benefit both, vegans as well as nature. Why, it is a selfish thing to do. (Before you raise your eyebrows,) It is a sacrifice of one thing for another. The time you stop paying heed to the loud desires of your stomach and start listening to those of your heart, is when you turn vegetarian or vegan.

The irony stays. It’s a conflict, not between your mind and heart, but your stomach, your taste-buds, your drools, all of them and your heart. To some cynics, veganism is preposterous. They have a rather intriguing question, “If one form of life is sacred, why not another?” Well, if we choose to look at all forms of life as sacred, ours will probably plummet and before we realize we’ll be in heaven, admiring the sacred forms of life on earth.

The human tendency to have a debate over everything alludes to the not so blatant fact that humans think. We think about everything that comes in our way, be it other humans, changes, opportunities, ambitions, targets, emotions or anything that seems new, not realizing that in the process, we lose what we have in hand. Life starts to encompass all possible extraneous stuff. It’s rather funny how, being humans, who by definition are the most radical beings on earth, make biggest bloopers when it comes to prioritizing our lives. When I see my close ones trying hard to ‘create an impression’ in someone else’s mind, I wonder whether their lives are in their hands. Validation, recognition, ‘making a difference’, climbing the steps of a ladder and crying for another ladder, after reaching the top, is what we live for.

The heart is an entity that deserves to be preserved, to be taken care of. Success is what we live for, but that’s only if we live. We ought to take some steps to fight anything that poses danger to the most important part of our body, the heart. Why shouldn’t we acknowledge the fact that the heart-throb isn’t just a rhythmic beating, it’s the heart’s way of rejoicing our survival through everything. We need to let the heart speak, for which it needs to have a voice..

For this and some of the more implicit reasons, I chose to take the pledge on www.billionheartsbeating.com. Win your heart and you’ll win. Quoting Seth Godin, “What happens when you define a win as getting closer to someone who wants the same thing? Or when you define it as improvement over time? Or in creating trust? What if the win is the ability to give a true gift?” If you (choose to) have the time or the patience to think over these, do not miss the heart-throb getting faster with every question you read..