When I looked, really looked for the first time, I saw my own suffering. How I was so desperate to escape that which hurt me. That pain in the depths of fear, confusion, and heartbreak.. that residual question; “why?”..
And how beyond it, I knew there would never be an answer good enough to justify any of it. When I opened my heart and saw with my eyes, I saw in others the language we all can speak. I heard the voiceless voice…
That which doesn’t speak in words but instead speaks only through what can be felt. I discovered the magnitude of empathy because I heard them with my heart. I saw each of them unique and also the same in their fight to live, just as each of us would. I saw all life represent the same desire to live. And I also saw how we needlessly take their lives away. I could no longer take from others that which I had the privilege to maintain.
I couldn’t kill anymore..
I broke the chains of my mind and shattered the prison of my heart. I saw, I felt, and I changed. I help to liberate the many but it was myself that I set free…#vegan