Day 2,208 feeling 100% again

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It is truly a unique time to be alive, each day has been a blend of unexpected challenges, and thematic redundancies. I see the world around me want to just pretend like this virus isn’t a serious threat, and go back to normal. I keep looking at the data, and things seem far from over, but people have been home for almost two months now, and they are getting sick of it, so we pretend it is over; even though, pretending it is over when it is not, will result in the deaths of tens of thousands of people.

         This past year, I have come to the realization that there a lot of people out there who don’t care about the truth or helping themselves or other people, they instead simply care about being right, and / or being perceived as right. I make that qualification because I don’t accept that some of these people aren’t smart enough to realize they are wrong, but instead insist on creating a narrative that suggest that they are right.

         I am not suggesting that these people don’t at times care about others or the truth, but if they have to make a choice between helping others / the truth, or being right—they always go with being right.

         As soon as I started eating plant based, I told everyone how great it made me feel because I felt like I had stumbled upon an open secret that could truly change other people’s lives. Some people react positively to my story, others grew angry at the suggestion that plant based could be healthy. I think about how all the individuals I talked to that were against plant based had the following things in common: they had never researched the topic themselves; they felt like they were more informed than I was on the topic; all had problems managing their weight.

         This one guy who got really mad at me when I shared my story. Told me how ironic our conversation was because he was eating salad. I thought to myself how that was ironic not for the reasons he thought, but because his understanding of plant based was that salads were the optimal meal for people like me.

         So, I guess some people just care more about being right than the truth, so what? I am not going to let that get me down. If you are reading this, and you have never read about something and changed your mind before then you may be one of these people I am talking about. I hope you will get something out of reading this, and I would only encourage you to do your own research and reflect. I have been wrong about so many things in my life, but knowing that I was wrong has allowed me to develop the way I see things. I don’t care about, “being right,” I care about helping others and the truth, which are usually the same when it comes down to it.