Here’s a common exchange I used to have somewhat often:
“Oh, so you’re vegan?”
”Yep.”
“Must be hard.”
”Not really.”
“Well, I couldn’t do it.”
We are creatures of habit. Look at what you’ve done today. Probably 80% of it was what you did - and around the same time as what you did - the day before, and the day before that, and so on. There’s nothing much wrong with that. It’s the way we work.
However, growth requires change, and change requires effort. And when it comes to changing our habits, a great amount of effort may be needed at first.
Here’s an exchange I’m sure has occured more than once on college campuses:
“So, you get up every day at 6:00?”
”Yeah.”
“Must be hard.”
”Not really.”
“Well, I couldn’t do it.”
Of course, anyone can do that. It’s really a matter of changing habits. It takes work to get used to waking up early in the morning if you’re not used to it already. Over time it takes less work. Then one day when someone says to you, “It must be hard,” you reply with, “Not really,” because it isn’t hard anymore; it’s your new habit.
We are creatures of habit. Use that to your advantage and create yourself some habits that will get you to where you want to be.
For the matter of our food habits, that takes a great deal of effort to change at first. Food is something we think about many times thoughout the day - every day almost all the time. Meals, snacks, and drinks. The smells, tastes, sight of food everywhere. Feeling hungry, feeling full. It’s a big habit to change!
But just as you can choose to be up early every day, you can choose to make your meals of whatever you wish. You will eat the way you eat today because it was the way you ate yesterday.
This is important. It’s not because “that’s the way people eat.” No. It’s because that’s the way you eat. Your choices will be influenced by everything around, sure. But in the end, you are responsible for your own habits.
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