Confession time

I’m Facebook friends with a hardcore vegan and 99% of why I haven’t unfriended her even though everything she posts is just nonstop preaching about why eating meat is immoral is because her post are an important thought exercise for me. Sometimes I’ll post something or reblog something that is a naked guilt trippy emotional appeal with very little substance. I’ve been trying to do that less and her posts remind me of why. This is because I both support what she’s doing* and think her posts are guilt trippy, kind of a pain in the ass, and don’t really appeal to me at the same time. That I can hold both of these things to be true in my head makes it easier for me to understand people who, say, might support something that I care about but find a particular way of engaging with it to be annoying or exhausting. Therefore, when I’m about to reblog a post, I sometimes will think “does this make me sound like my annoying vegan facebook friend?” and then leave it alone.

* I’m a vegetarian
myself and I think people should eat less meat if they can